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<p>[QUOTE="6rivets, post: 15402, member: 24"]The "symbols" read ECCE HOMO - Latin usually translated as "Behold the Man".</p><p><br /></p><p>Depicting the humanity of Christ has <i>always</i> been a major point in artistic representations. (That's why the baby Jesus is often pictured with his pud showing.) It simultaneously combats the heresy that Jesus was only divine, not man, and (along with depicting him as a member of the artist's own race) reminds the viewer that he was "one of us".</p><p><br /></p><p>20th century, likely 1950s or later, but that's as far as I'll venture datewise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="6rivets, post: 15402, member: 24"]The "symbols" read ECCE HOMO - Latin usually translated as "Behold the Man". Depicting the humanity of Christ has [I]always[/I] been a major point in artistic representations. (That's why the baby Jesus is often pictured with his pud showing.) It simultaneously combats the heresy that Jesus was only divine, not man, and (along with depicting him as a member of the artist's own race) reminds the viewer that he was "one of us". 20th century, likely 1950s or later, but that's as far as I'll venture datewise.[/QUOTE]
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