Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

Head of Christ, c. 1648-54
One of the most remarkable things about the portrait heads of Christ is that Rembrandt gave Christ the features of a living human being — they were painted from a live model. This not a remote divinity. It's a very human Christ you might run into on the street, literally — many scholars believe the model may have been a particular Sephardic Jew who lived and worked in Rembrandt's Amsterdam neighborhood.

• J.M.W. Turner at the National Gallery in Washington