Alien: The Space Jockey corpse in HR Giger's Alien landscape (work 385)(1978) references image of Christ taken down from the Cross?

Radio Times cover and astronaut's corpse for comparison

 

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Alien: HR Giger's landscape (work 385)(1978)

 

Detail from painting of the planetoid landscape (work 385) (detail)

 

27th March 2017: I am looking through the images from 1978 at Radio Times Collectors on Facebook, I come by a Radio Times cover for Easter that year, and since I have been looking at how Giger referenced images from the magazine for his paintings since his time on Alien, I begin to wonder if Giger had started looking at the Radio Times covers and thought about this Jesus Christ being taken down from the cross as a starting point, considering that the legs are together almost as if fused into one.

Giger had already taken religious iconography and transformed it into science fictional items in his painting (See: Nativity Scene integrated into Biomechanic landscape i (work-297) (1976)), this might have been another opportunity, and there might those who claim that Jesus was an astronaut.

Having said that, this Christ would just be an example of a Jesus Christ being taken down from the cross, it is not exactly like the Space Jockey's form and there aren't many shared features to pin down that are specific to the two, but it's near enough and there are other possible examples that he might have seen at the time since the idea in the composition is of course very popular and to be found around many churches and art galleries in museums. 

We could make a page full of such images and see if one of them has any specific similarities.

Source of Radio Times image: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154673705234545&set=g.235808070436&type=1&theater

cover of the Radio Times 25-31 March 1978