Christianity embraced the use of statues, frescoes, and mosaics after abandoning the prohibition of images.
By the time of the second century, statues and pictures of Jesus had began to appear.
Orthodox Christianity have always tried to avoid statues but mainly focused on frescoes, mosaics, and icons. Churches usually have a high screen that separates the altar from the body of the church, the screen is called an iconstasis because it is covered in icons.
In Western Europe, statues and paintings of Mary began to show her less like a goddess but more as a human mother and representations of Jesus began to emphasize his bodily suffering.
Paintings of saints showed the saint's eyes lifted to the skies, the robes blown by wind, and sunlit clouds parted in the background.