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| Topic | So was Jesus black? |
| darkphoenix181 12/02/19 11:05:16 AM #48: | EvenSpoonier posted... As for Cesare Borgia: most modern depictions of him don't just look like a white guy, but a very specific white guy, and that's not an accident. Cesare Borgia was an Italian nobleman in the early 16th century, who otherwise would probably have been most famous for briefly employing Leonardo da Vinci as a military engineer. But his father was Pope Alexander VI, who started a big campaign of putting his son in pictures of Jesus in an attempt to bolster his son's reputation and chances of success. That campaign mostly failed -Cesare was overthrown soon after his father died- but the depiction stuck, and Cesare has been the face of Jesus ever since. Interesting. This guy on quora though says that is a consoiracy and offers paintings of Jesus before Cesare Borgia's time. https://www.quora.com/Is-the-popular-image-of-Jesus-really-Cesare-Borgia ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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