How did we decide what Christ looked like?

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

Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.

Other articles by this contributor:

First Pitch · Marianne Moore

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

Complicated Detours · Darwin’s Worms by Adam Phillips

Nothing for Ever and Ever · Housman’s Pleasures

Flinch Wince Jerk Shirk · Christine Brooke-Rose

Point of View · Atonement by Ian McEwan

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

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