Images of the Buddha are religious icons of the most powerful sort. Yet, it transpired that, no image of the Buddha were created until six centuries after the incarnation of the former prince Gautama had ended. The New York Times Style Magazine published a feature about how the image of the Buddha as deified human came to be.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/t-magazine/buddha-statues-face.html.
