Jesus looks Italian in all the paintings I have seen.
As a portrait artist, I have followed The Shroud since the early '60's.
The iconic paintings of Jesus, done by the hundreds for churches, long before cameras, all had one source - and all resemble the Shroud.
Some even have 2 wisps of hair on the forehead - which are on the shroud - but they are not hair, they are blood.
We have the 'familiar' face of Jesus because of the Shroud.
Some, in the past few years, try to dismiss this likeness, saying it isn't "Jewish" enough - not short and swarthy, etc.
Good grief, Neither is 'BiBi" ;o)
go to Jerusalem today - heck, go to your local supermarket or WalMart - look at your own family. We are not cookie cutter people. Nor are/were the Jews/Israelites.
there are today - and always was - plenty of blue eyed, lighter haired, lighter complexion Jews/Israelites.
As for the likeness of Jesus - Who can know? But the Shroud face has a provenance, through art, that stretches back hundreds and hundreds of years.
in The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain noted that as he and his fellow travelers crossed Europe, “we find a piece of the true cross in every old church we go into, and some of the nails that held it together. I would not like to be positive, but I think we have seen as much as a keg of these nails.”
“Jesus looks Italian in all the paintings I have seen.”
Hmmm, and you sound like a fool...