Description: STATEMENT OF SAUL BERNSTEIN ON HIS WORK Some time ago I asked myself questions that dealt with iconography. I came to the conclusion that if we lived in Italy during the Renaissance, the painter could take a fellow Italian and paint his own portrait. He could then claim this was a painting of Jesus; nobody would question this claim because the people would expect the religious icon to look like themselves. The culture dictated their perception. The question is, “What is our icon today?” The answer t