Is the Turin Shroud really a self-portrait by Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci?
But could Leonardo da Vinci also have perpetrated history's greatest art forgery?
That's the suggestion of one expert, who claims that Leonardo was responsible for faking the Turin Shroud.
The relic has inspired generations of pilgrims who have flocked to see what they believe is the face of the crucified Jesus.
But it has also provoked bitter controversy after scientists carbon-dated it to the Middle Ages.
Now an American artist has entered the fray, putting forward her own theory about its origin.
Lillian Schwartz, a graphic consultant at the School of Visual Arts in New York, claims that the image is a self-portrait of Leonardo, which was made using a crude photographic technique.
Using computer scans she found that the face on the Turin Shroud and a self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci share the same dimensions.
Miss Schwartz came to prominence in the 1980s when she made detailed measurements of the Mona Lisa and a Leonardo self-portrait.
To her amazement, the two faces lined up perfectly, leading her to suggest that he used a self portrait as a model for the painting.
Earlier this year she used the same technique to compare another Leonardo self-portrait with the Turin Shroud.
'It matched. I'm excited about this,' she said. 'There is no doubt in my mind that the proportions that Leonardo wrote about were used in creating this Shroud's face.'
According to a Channel Five documentary to be shown tonight, Leonardo scorched his facial features on to the linen of the Shroud using a sculpture of his face and a photographic device called a 'camera obscura'.
Is this another fraud committed by the Catholic Church?
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I personally have done the research and read enough to believe a lot of what the Catholic Church is fraudulent- such as the Scala Sancta... let's say. I was really irked because at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme there's this replica of the shroud there- as if it were that important... as a replica. We all know that a face can't make a print like that if a shroud were actually laying on one's body.
I don't know if Da Vinci would really want to make a shroud like that as a print of his own face, unless it were an exploit to pursue the use of camera obscura.
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- lolitanimatronic
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Done your research? How? By reading Chick tracts? Another very weak attempt to discredit the Shroud of Turin. This is probably one of the most absurd attempts to discredit the Shroud. Without God, there would be no atheists. Every mark on that shroud, every imprint, is of a man that was crucified- and it fits the biblical narrative. The shroud wasn't laying on his body- he was wrapped in it! The laws of physics don't apply to Christ- our limited human minds can only comprehend so much.......
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- unclecharlie
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