Art Lovers Can See Christ, Through Eyes of Masters, at BYU

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
By Peggy Fletcher Stack

(Courtesy photo) Heinrich Hofmann - Jesus in the Temple

UTAH---We may not know what Jesus looked like, but artists in every region and generation have tried to capture how he seemed to them. In 19th-century Europe, painters depicted the Christian savior as a heroic figure, divine yet human. Their style was realistic, but their goal was emotive — to make viewers feel the man’s presence. Now, Brigham Young University has brought together in a single exhibit two dozen religious works of three artistic giants from the late 1800s — Carl Bloch, Heinrich Hofmann and Frans Schwartz. For BYU, Bloch’s paintings are a second coming of sorts. The Danish artist’s Jesus is familiar to Utahns, having appeared often in Mormon meetinghouses, manuals and magazines. [link]