Abstract
In the course of history, artists' depictions of the crucified redeemer reflected the various philosophies and theologies of their particular eras. He suffered with Stoic resignation. The docetic Christ only appeared to suffer as God masqueraded in human form. The excesses of realism and rococcoism depicted the crucified Jesus contorted in pain and crying out. In the final quarter of the twentieth century, under the influence of liberation theologies, grotesque images of the crucified have surfaced among the suffering poor of Latin America. Jesus' Asian heritage is retrieved in Asian faces. Africans claim a black Messiah. Celtic spirituality resurrects Jesus' Druidic connection. The cosmic Christ is hailed as the ecological saviour, and Jesus of Montreal gets killed again. To top it off, artists have, in the minds of some viewers, gone beyond the limits of human decency by producing a crucified woman.
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