Gallery One: Depictions of Christ

The first significant area I will be displaying is Depictions of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, or God the Son, is apart of the Holy Trinity, which is three persons in one God. That explains the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church. For this selection, I have picked artists that exemplified fantastic displays of Jesus throughout their artwork.

The artists featured are Paolo Veronese, Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), Jacopo Tintoretto, and Giovanni Bellini. Each of these artists created a moment in Jesus's life, showing the world visualization of the life of Jesus Christ. Paolo Veronese depicts the biblical scene of Jesus being baptized in the Jordan River by his cousin, John the Baptist. He uses an array of bright colors and humanistic detail to make the scene seem as though it is real life. The Last Supper, painted by Jacopo Tintoretto, exhibits Jesus's last meal with his friends. It is a very dark painting, and Jesus is embedded with a halo, signifying his holiness. You can see ghosts and spirits watching this event. The Feast in the House of Levi was supposed to be a Last Supper painting, but it turned into a different version. The Inquisition wanted Veronese to change the inappropriate features, but Veronese changed the name of the artwork and claimed it as his own. Titian creates Christ Carrying His Cross and shows the sadness, exhaustion, and dehydration of Jesus's face. He is on his way to be nailed to the cross and save us from all of our sins. The other paintings are images of Jesus with the Madonna (Mary) and with other saints.

Since Jesus was an essential part of the Roman Catholic religion, Venetian artists felt that he should deserve a spotlight in this time of religious-themed paintings. The images are selected in this order to show his timeline up until he died.