I was not in class today. However i did do the reading so i will share some thoughts on chapter 18.
The artwork that struck my interest the most from the chapter was Albrecht Durer’s self-portrait. The reading explains that this was not weird to paint in the likeness of Jesus Christ, but the resemblance goes beyond the way his hair is modeled. His frontality and the position of his hands really resembled the pose that Christ has in the Sacred Heart image. It is my instinct to believe that imitating Christ is idolatry. It makes sense that one of the points of the Protestant reformation was the sacrilege of icons. In the same sense, it reminds me for example “The Madonna with the Long Neck”, who was it modeled after? It seems to me that these contemporary depictions of biblical figures tread on thin ice when it comes to idolatry.