Christianity has an original relationship with the image: for faith recognizes in Christ himself the true image of God. The representation of the unrepresentable, the manifestation of the absolutely transcendent - how is that possible? The image cultures of Christianity stretch between the poles of a pleasure in images and the weight of the unrepresentable. In addressing this tension, the artist gains increasing significance. Thus, Christianity brings the image into modernity. It is the inner dialectic of representation and unrepresentability from which the image draws its allure: as if the image had already been gazing at us long before our eyes fell upon it. This book invites personal encounters with significant and unusual representations of Mary and Christ throughout the centuries.