Was Jesus Really Wrapped in the Shroud of Turin?

[Kurokage]

https://gizmodo.com/was-jesus-really-wra...2000638886

 
The Shroud of Turin is an ancient linen cloth with the subtle impression of the front and back of a crucified man. While many believe it was the burial shroud in which Jesus was wrapped when he died in the 30s CE, scientific research has dated it to between 1260 and 1390 CE, suggesting it’s a medieval artifact. An ingenious new approach using 3D scans is now adding further credence to the suggestion that Jesus’s body—or any body for that matter—never touched this famous fabric.
Cicero Moraes, a 3D designer specializing in digital 3D facial reconstruction, has joined the contentious debate by using computer models to simulate two scenarios: draping a sheet of fabric (the same size as the Shroud of Turin) on a 3D human and one on a low-relief depiction of a human to compare their imprints, or contact patterns. Low-reliefs, also known as bas-reliefs, are carvings in which the figures emerge only slightly from their backgrounds. In other words, Moraes wanted to see whether the figure on the Shroud of Turin corresponds more closely to the imprint of a human body or a bas-relief.

“The results demonstrate that the contact pattern generated by the low-relief model is more compatible with the Shroud’s image, showing less anatomical distortion and greater fidelity to the observed contours, while the projection of a 3D body results in a significantly distorted image,” Moraes wrote in a study published late last month in the journal Archaeometry. Moraes is the sole author. Simply put, “the Shroud’s image is more consistent with an artistic low-relief representation than with the direct imprint of a real human body, supporting hypotheses of its origin as a medieval work of art.”

I just came across this article and found it very interesting.

The idea that the Shroud is the actual burial cloth of Jesus has always struck as a little bit far fetched. It was common practice during the middle ages to have some sort of little trinket to attract worshippers, and most appear to have been anything dug up from the holy land that could be past of as evidence of Christ or the divine. More visitors to see your Church and relic, more donations.
The first historical account of the shroud occurs in 1354, when it is recorded that it wound up in the hands of a famed knight, Geoffroi de Charnay, seigneur de Lirey. There is no record of how he came into possession of it.

[Tecate]

So, ok, if the shroud was made with bas-relief then it would have needed 2 bas-relief’s since the shroud has both front and back on the same cloth.
Interesting idea and quite the forward thinking artist.

Personally I don’t believe that it is a work of art. I don’t know, anymore than anyone else if it is Jesus, Jacques DeMolay or someone else who is imprinted into this cloth, but it is intriguing.

My 2 pesos…


Tecate

[Byrd]

So, ok, if the shroud was made with bas-relief then it would have needed 2 bas-relief’s since the shroud has both front and back on the same cloth.
Interesting idea and quite the forward thinking artist.

Personally I don’t believe that it is a work of art. I don’t know, anymore than anyone else if it is Jesus, Jacques DeMolay or someone else who is imprinted into this cloth, but it is intriguing.

My 2 pesos…


Tecate

As I understand it, the images were painted.  

The "look" is very consistent with figures of Jesus (carved and painted) from that time period.

[Kurokage]

As I understand it, the images were painted.  

The "look" is very consistent with figures of Jesus (carved and painted) from that time period.

I agree.
This is a Mosaic of Jesus Christ in Istanbul, Turkey. You can clearly see similarities in the style used  here and in the depiction used on the shroud.