Jesus of New York?

During his 43-year tenure, retired Andrews University professor Greg Constantine taught the popular class, "The Life of Christ in Great Art."

Using works by a range of artists, including Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn and Italian master Michelangelo Buonarroti, Constantine showed how art was used to portray various incidents described in the bible about the life of Jesus Christ.

"Many, many, many artists have done something on the life of Christ," Constantine says. "Of course before the Renaissance and even during the Renaissance the church was pretty much the only patron for artists. They thrived on that."

During the more than 20 years he spent teaching the course, Constantine noticed that both he and his students seemed to relate to some of the same works. That's when he noticed the common denominator.

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