How did we decide what Christ looked like?

From the LRB letters page: [ 1 June 2000 ] Alfred Jowett, Anthony Beck.

Frank Kermode’s most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. He lives in Cambridge.

Other articles by this contributor:

‘Disgusting’ · Frank Kermode remembers William Empson

Nutmegged · The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis.

Here she is · Zadie Smith

No Tricks · Raymond Carver

First Pitch · Marianne Moore

Maximum Assistance from Good Cooking, Good Clothes, Good Drink · Auden’s Shakespeare

Booker Books · the 1979 prize

‘It’s the way people like us don’t talk’ · Andrew Motion’s Boyhood