Did da Vinci create shroud in own image?
| July 5, 2009 | 4:50 AM
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Here’s something that might be hard to face.
An artist claims to have new evidence supporting the theory that Leonardo da Vinci faked the Shroud of Turin by creating an image of himself. The Renaissance painter and inventor made the alleged self-portrait using a crude photographic technique, according to Lillian Schwartz, a graphic consultant at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
The basic idea isn’t new — it was the subject of the 1994 book The Turin Shroud: How Da Vinci Fooled History. But Schwartz fuels the debate by pointing to her computer scans of the shroud’s face. She says they prove the image matches the dimensions of da Vinci’s known self-portrait.
Believers say the shroud held Jesus’ body after crucifixion and that the image was created during resurrection.
Read more at the London Daily Mail.
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