Images of Jesus Christ

I did some research on how has Jesus been described through art since the beginnings of time, but I will only post a few, but first I will talk a little bit about it.

I was raised in a catholic family, in Peru, the catholic religion prevails. Every time I go to church I am surrounded of several statues and pictures of angels, Jesus, and Maria.When we pray, or when we talk about Jesus Christ, we automatically picture an image of a person in our minds composed of several elements: Most likely pictures of what we have seen in movies, or art, or about what we have read, and those personal elements are the fruit of our sensibility, our imagination, and our way of understanding and living the faith.

The Lord said to Moses, " Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves, I am the Lord your God.

Christians that come from paganism wanted to avoid any confusion between Christ and the pagan gods, so they used symbols and allegories such as bread, fish, lamb..

                                      

                          The most famous picture of the Good Shepherd is from the IV century.

The Greek word "Pantocrator" means "Almighty". The representation of Jesus as "Pantocrator" tries to resume the savior and creator of the world history and world in a single picture. (Xll - Xlll)

                                                     
                                            

Art and religion were distancing in the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution century. Cartesian philosophy and experimental sciences opened up a gap between the physical world and the spiritual universe. It is then when this picture of Jesus with Holy heart.

                                     

 Why did people start creating these images of Jesus. Is there a specific purpose or meaning?