In the early days of Christianity, nobody really knew what Jesus Christ looked like. What little evidence there is often conflicts.
The first Jesuses in art are young, handsome, curly-haired and free. So, either Jesus deliberately misled his followers about what he actually looked like for the first 1,000 years or so of Christianity, or the Turin Shroud is a mediaeval fake. I know what I think.
Christianity often looked to the Pagan Gods for models to adopt into the new fledgling religion. Jesus is believed to be modelled on the youthful Apollo.
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