Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaus features a snag in a wicker basket that mirrors an underground Christian emblem, writes Kelly Grovier. Sometimes a flaw isn't a flaw at all but a flourish – a ...

Early Christians used a wide variety of symbols to express their faith. The second-century Christian teacher Clement of Alexandria identified a dove, a fish ... tools like the plough and the ...

The fish has plenty of other theological overtones as well, for Christ fed the 5,000 with 2 fishes and 5 loaves (a meal recapitulated in Christian ... it a perfect secret symbol for persecuted ...

But historian Joan Taylor, religious studies professor at ... Christ's son in her book published earlier this month, "What Did Jesus Look Like?" For starters, she believes Jesus was short ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. In the early Church, when Christians were being persecuted, Christians would use the fish symbol as a secret sign ...

Unconvinced that the artist intended to braid into his basket an encrypted Christian symbol? Look ... like tablecloth to the right of the wicker bowl. There, an even more emphatic shape of a fish ...