{"id":89354,"date":"2024-09-10T09:51:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T02:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/?p=89354"},"modified":"2025-02-07T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:23:37","slug":"after-2000-years-the-real-face-of-jesus-has-been-finally-revealed-and-its-not-what-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/after-2000-years-the-real-face-of-jesus-has-been-finally-revealed-and-its-not-what-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"After 2000 years, the real face of Jesus has been FINALLY revealed – and it’s not what you think…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off The RecordHere\u2019s How Jesus Really Looked Like \u2013 FINALLY Revealed After 2,000 Years\n

Theologians and historians have debated for nearly two thousand years what the historical Jesus Christ might have looked like.\n

The Son of God is typically portrayed in Renaissance art \u2014 and by the Catholic Church \u2014 as a towering, hulking European with long, blond hair and piercing blue eyes.\n

However, most historians agree that a carpenter\u2019s son born in modern-day Palestine would have the same physical characteristics as the natives of that time: a shorter, stockier frame with curly black hair.\n

But the debate may have been settled once and for all thanks to an innovative artificial intelligence tool deployed by a Dutch photographer and digital artist.\n

The expert in algorithmic picture synthesis, Bas Uterwijk, used the machine learning capabilities of the program Artbreeder to create a stunning portrait of Jesus.\n

His \u201chistorically accurate\u201d depiction of the Messiah stands in stark contrast to Western art and ecclesiastical depictions of the Messiah.\n

\"The — The real Jesus? The AI-generated image of the Son of God
Bas Uterwijk\n
Mr. Uterwijk stated, \u201cI have a background in Computer Generated images and Special Effects.\n
\u201cThe artificial intelligence software utilises a neural network trained on photographs and paintings of thousands human faces.\n
\u201cThis application makes it possible to combine multiple sources of faces and merge them in a synthesised version, guided by the artistic decisions of the user. I use it to create historical and fictional characters.\n
\u201cI used several cultural depictions of Jesus of Nazareth of Byzantine and Renaissance origin including Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s \u201cSalvator Mundi\u201d, and the Turin Shroud, tweaking the ethnicity to a more convincing Middle-Eastern face.\u201d\n
He added: \u201cI was happy with the result as a representation of a collective cultural depiction but at the same time I felt it lacked any historical accuracy.\n
\u201cSo I changed the hair and beard to a more credible length and style for the time and region and I brought in elements found in some Fayum mummy portraits, pushing the renaissance art to the background.\n
\u201cThe result is an artistic impression of how this man could have looked, more than it is a scientific search for an exact likeness.\u201d\n
Even though the discussion over Jesus\u2019s appearance\u2019s veracity has been going on since Christmas 2020, this magnificent image has resurfaced this year.\n
According to the Bible, Jesus was born to a Jewish family in Bethlehem in 4 BC, raised in Egypt, and eventually settled in the city of Nazareth in what is now Israel.\n
$\"What$
What did Jesus really look like: Traditional images seen in paintings in churches are \u2018wrong\u2019\n
The garments Jesus wore are described in several gospels, yet he is rarely depicted in any detail.\n
Longtime researcher and author of What Did Jesus Look Like Joan Taylor estimated that Jesus was probably around the average height for a man of his time, which was 5 feet 5 inches.\n
Taylor writes that mummy images, ancient literature, and other artifacts indicate that the people of Judea and Egypt had dark olive skin, dark black hair, and brown eyes.\n
She remarked, \u201cEveryone can imagine what Jesus looked like. We have the image of Jesus everywhere. It\u2019s a global image. It\u2019s a phenomenon.\n
\u201cSo we think we can recognise him. We don\u2019t even have to work at it.\n
\u201cBut the traditional images in paintings, in fact, date to the 4th or 5th Century \u2013 the long hair, the robe, the beard.\n
\u201cIn reality, that\u2019s not what he looked like at all. Jesus was not a pale person. He was not a European. He was a Jewish man of his time. He was very much of his time and place.\u201d\n
The scholar, an expert in Christian origins, added: \u201cHe would have had dark skin and probably had shortish black hair \u2013 long hair was very unusual in the 1st Century \u2013 a beard and wore sandals.\n
\u201cHe was a wanderer. He was on the streets. He accepted charity from strangers. He was with the poor.\n
\u201cThe 2nd Century philosopher Celsus said Jesus was shabby, a vagabond who was unkempt \u2013 he looked like a beggar. That tallies with everything else we know about Jesus.\n
\u201cHe even described himself as homeless. As he said: \u2018Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head\u2019.\u201d\n
$\"A$
A 2001 image of Jesus released by a forensic facial expert supports the newer reconstruction Richard Neave\n
Even though Jesus would have had some cultural exchange with Europeans (who would have had lighter skin) and Africans (who would have had darker skin), Taylor still thinks he would have looked like a normal Jewish guy of the 1st century.\n
It\u2019s likely that Jesus looked like the average person of his time in the Middle East due to the high intermarriage rate among Jews in Judea and Egypt.\n
According to archives, Judeans typically kept their hair and beards short and well-combed to combat the prevalence of lice.\n
The image has strong parallels to the work of forensic facial reconstruction expert Richard Neave, who in 2001 sought to reproduce the look of a first-century Judean man like Jesus.\n
His likeness was based on a first-century Israelite skull and was shown in the BBC documentary Son of God.\n
The forensic recreation, like Uterwijk\u2019s painting, did not resemble the \u2018European\u2019 Jesus familiar to Westerners.\n
A short, stocky man with olive skin, dark hair, and a trim beard was depicted.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Off The RecordHere\u2019s How Jesus Really Looked Like \u2013 FINALLY Revealed After 2,000 Years Theologians and historians have debated for nearly two thousand years what the historical Jesus Christ might have looked like. The Son of God is typically portrayed in Renaissance art \u2014 and by the Catholic Church \u2014 as a towering, hulking European\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":111791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/After-2000-years-the-real-face-of-Jesus-has-been-FINALLY-revealed-and-its-not-what-you-think.-photo-in-question-is-in-the-comments-\ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111792,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89354\/revisions\/111792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

The real Jesus? The AI-generated image of the Son of God
Bas Uterwijk\n
Mr. Uterwijk stated, \u201cI have a background in Computer Generated images and Special Effects.\n
\u201cThe artificial intelligence software utilises a neural network trained on photographs and paintings of thousands human faces.\n
\u201cThis application makes it possible to combine multiple sources of faces and merge them in a synthesised version, guided by the artistic decisions of the user. I use it to create historical and fictional characters.\n
\u201cI used several cultural depictions of Jesus of Nazareth of Byzantine and Renaissance origin including Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s \u201cSalvator Mundi\u201d, and the Turin Shroud, tweaking the ethnicity to a more convincing Middle-Eastern face.\u201d\n
He added: \u201cI was happy with the result as a representation of a collective cultural depiction but at the same time I felt it lacked any historical accuracy.\n
\u201cSo I changed the hair and beard to a more credible length and style for the time and region and I brought in elements found in some Fayum mummy portraits, pushing the renaissance art to the background.\n
\u201cThe result is an artistic impression of how this man could have looked, more than it is a scientific search for an exact likeness.\u201d\n
Even though the discussion over Jesus\u2019s appearance\u2019s veracity has been going on since Christmas 2020, this magnificent image has resurfaced this year.\n
According to the Bible, Jesus was born to a Jewish family in Bethlehem in 4 BC, raised in Egypt, and eventually settled in the city of Nazareth in what is now Israel.\n
$\"What$
What did Jesus really look like: Traditional images seen in paintings in churches are \u2018wrong\u2019\n
The garments Jesus wore are described in several gospels, yet he is rarely depicted in any detail.\n
Longtime researcher and author of What Did Jesus Look Like Joan Taylor estimated that Jesus was probably around the average height for a man of his time, which was 5 feet 5 inches.\n
Taylor writes that mummy images, ancient literature, and other artifacts indicate that the people of Judea and Egypt had dark olive skin, dark black hair, and brown eyes.\n
She remarked, \u201cEveryone can imagine what Jesus looked like. We have the image of Jesus everywhere. It\u2019s a global image. It\u2019s a phenomenon.\n
\u201cSo we think we can recognise him. We don\u2019t even have to work at it.\n
\u201cBut the traditional images in paintings, in fact, date to the 4th or 5th Century \u2013 the long hair, the robe, the beard.\n
\u201cIn reality, that\u2019s not what he looked like at all. Jesus was not a pale person. He was not a European. He was a Jewish man of his time. He was very much of his time and place.\u201d\n
The scholar, an expert in Christian origins, added: \u201cHe would have had dark skin and probably had shortish black hair \u2013 long hair was very unusual in the 1st Century \u2013 a beard and wore sandals.\n
\u201cHe was a wanderer. He was on the streets. He accepted charity from strangers. He was with the poor.\n
\u201cThe 2nd Century philosopher Celsus said Jesus was shabby, a vagabond who was unkempt \u2013 he looked like a beggar. That tallies with everything else we know about Jesus.\n
\u201cHe even described himself as homeless. As he said: \u2018Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head\u2019.\u201d\n
$\"A$
A 2001 image of Jesus released by a forensic facial expert supports the newer reconstruction Richard Neave\n
Even though Jesus would have had some cultural exchange with Europeans (who would have had lighter skin) and Africans (who would have had darker skin), Taylor still thinks he would have looked like a normal Jewish guy of the 1st century.\n
It\u2019s likely that Jesus looked like the average person of his time in the Middle East due to the high intermarriage rate among Jews in Judea and Egypt.\n
According to archives, Judeans typically kept their hair and beards short and well-combed to combat the prevalence of lice.\n
The image has strong parallels to the work of forensic facial reconstruction expert Richard Neave, who in 2001 sought to reproduce the look of a first-century Judean man like Jesus.\n
His likeness was based on a first-century Israelite skull and was shown in the BBC documentary Son of God.\n
The forensic recreation, like Uterwijk\u2019s painting, did not resemble the \u2018European\u2019 Jesus familiar to Westerners.\n
A short, stocky man with olive skin, dark hair, and a trim beard was depicted.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Off The RecordHere\u2019s How Jesus Really Looked Like \u2013 FINALLY Revealed After 2,000 Years Theologians and historians have debated for nearly two thousand years what the historical Jesus Christ might have looked like. The Son of God is typically portrayed in Renaissance art \u2014 and by the Catholic Church \u2014 as a towering, hulking European\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":111791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/After-2000-years-the-real-face-of-Jesus-has-been-FINALLY-revealed-and-its-not-what-you-think.-photo-in-question-is-in-the-comments-\ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111792,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89354\/revisions\/111792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}