I have other variations of Christ portraiture related to his Passion to present in my series on new faces of Jesus in the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection. We will look this week at a genre of imagery known as the Man of Sorrows, depicting Christ wearing a crown of thorns, often stripped to the waist and displaying his wounds, which became a popular image for private devotion in the late Middle Ages. The title comes from the Song of the Suffering Servant in the Hebrew Scriptures, considered by Christians to be a prophetic foreshadowing of the Crucifixion of Christ: "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53:3, KJV)." Czech Graphic Artist Jaroslav Vodrazka offers us two variations on the theme. There is an image of Christ in three quarter profile with thorns encircling his brow and a full frontal portrait rendered as a white line negative of his face, resembling a tragedian's mask. We look to the eyes to form an emotional bond with the sufferer and find them empty. The pair of woodcuts can be found on the Vodrazka profile page in the School of Sacred Artists section (John Kohan)