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ELI5: Why does so much Christian artwork portray Jesus as a white man when he was supposed to have been born in the Middle East?
gpt
Artists tended to portray Jesus as looking much like the people in their native area.  Western european art made him look like a western european, and that's the style most of us are most accustomed to.