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December 5, 2006
Christ offers hope, Pres. Hinckley says
Despite death, war and calamity that haunt some even during the Christmas season, Jesus Christ offers the hope of salvation to all.
"He left his mark upon the world, which can never be erased nor diminished," said LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley during the annual First Presidency Christmas devotional Sunday night. "Our eternal lives are in his hands, and our eternal progress lies in obedience to his teachings."
At Brigham Young University, local artists currently are sharing wall space with some of the world's renowned painters.
"Baptism of Christ," J. Kirk Richards, oil on canvas.
The impressive and unique collection includes 170 paintings, prints, icons, illuminated manuscripts and sculpture from diverse times and creeds.
Local artists are Lee Udall Bennion, Brian T. Kershisnik, J. Kirk Richards, Laurie Olson Lisonbee, Bruce H. Smith, Ron Richmond and Kent Goodliffe.
They share space with Carl Heinrich Bloch, Albrecht Durer, John Rogers Herbert, Sir Edward John Poynter, Rembrandt, Ary Scheffer, Bernard Sleigh, Minerva Teichert and the Workshop of Titian.
The modern image of Jesus Christ, familiar to Westerners from countless living-room art prints and Sunday school primers, is a gaunt, robed man with fair skin, a beard and flowing, shoulder-length brown hair.
He is, without a doubt, the most-rendered artistic subject in history. But considering that nobody knows what Jesus looked like, why do so many portraits of him look the same?
"He left his mark upon the world, which can never be erased nor diminished," said LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley during the annual First Presidency Christmas devotional Sunday night. "Our eternal lives are in his hands, and our eternal progress lies in obedience to his teachings."
