the cathedral sparknotes
Some claim the image depicts Jesus of Nazareth and the fabric is the burial shroud in which he was wrapped after crucifixion. First mentioned inthe shroud was denounced in by sparlnotes local bishop of The cathedral sparknotes as a fake. Inradiocarbon dating established that the shroud was from the Middle Agesbetween the years and The image on the shroud is much clearer in black-and-white negative —first observed in —than in its natural sepia color.
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A variety of methods have been proposed for the formation of the image, but the actual method used has not yet been conclusively identified. The shroud is rectangular, measuring approximately 4. The cloth is woven in a three-to-one herringbone twill composed of flax fibrils.
Its most distinctive characteristic is the faint, brownish image of a front and back view of a naked man with his hands folded across his groin. The two views are aligned along the midplane of the body and point in opposite directions.
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The front and back views of the head nearly meet at the middle of the cloth. The image in faint straw-yellow colour on the crown of the cloth fibres appears to be of a man with a beard, moustache, and shoulder-length hair parted in the middle.
He is muscular and tall various experts have measured him as from 1. In May Italian photographer Secondo Pia was allowed to photograph the shroud.
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He took the first photograph of the shroud on 28 May Inanother photographer, Giuseppe Enrie, photographed the shroud and obtained results similar to Pia's. The shroud was damaged in a fire in in the chapel in ChamberyFrance. There are some burn holes and scorched areas down both sides of the the cathedral sparknotes, caused by contact with molten silver during the fire that burned through it in places while it was folded. The historical records for the shroud can be separated into two time periods: before and from to the present.
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Prior to there are some similar images such as the Pray Codex. However, what is claimed by the cathedral sparknotes to be the image of a shroud on the Pray Codex has crosses cathecral what may be one side of the supposed shroud, an interlocking step pyramid pattern on the other, and no image of Jesus. Critics point out that it may not be a shroud at all, but rather a rectangular tombstone, as seen on other sacred images.]
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