From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin: The Metamorphosis and Manipulation of a Legend by Andrea Nicolotti

From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin: The Metamorphosis and Manipulation of a Legend

Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Andrea Nicolotti

213 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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According to legend, the Mandylion was an image of Christ's face imprinted on a towel, kept in Edessa. This acheiopoieton image ("not made by human hands") disappeared in the eighteenth century. The first records of another acheiropoieton relic ap...

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