Seeing Salvation - Season 1 Episode 1 The Face

Neil MacGregor, Director of the National Gallery, London, hosts this detailed account of the changing faces of Christ in Christian art from its archaic representations in the Catacombs of 2nd Century Rome to its modern expressionist forms in the new English Architecture of the late 20th Century. Along the way MacGregor describes the shifting theologies and historical influences which have effected the changing face of Christian art.