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Turin archbishop Cardinal Roberto Repole, who serves as the pontifical custodian of the shroud, said his office has 'no reason to comment on hypotheses freely formulated by scientists of varying degrees of credibility.'
Shroud of Turin featuring positive (left) and negative (right) digital filters. (photo: Dianelos Georgoudis / Wikimedia Commons)
The guardians of the famed Shroud of Turin are disputing the results of a recent study that purports to disprove the cloth’s origins as the burial shroud of Jesus Christ.
Cicero Moraes, a Brazilian 3D artist, claimedin the scholarly journal Archaeometry last month that the depiction of Christ’s body on the shroud was likely made by a “low-relief model” such as a statue rather than a human body.
The imagery on the shroud 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,” the study alleges.
‘No novelty in this conclusion’
Continued below.
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The guardians of the famed Shroud of Turin are disputing the results of a recent study that purports to disprove the cloth’s origins as the burial shroud of Jesus Christ.
Cicero Moraes, a Brazilian 3D artist, claimedin the scholarly journal Archaeometry last month that the depiction of Christ’s body on the shroud was likely made by a “low-relief model” such as a statue rather than a human body.
The imagery on the shroud 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,” the study alleges.
‘No novelty in this conclusion’
Continued below.
Shroud of Turin Center Disputes New Study That Challenges Authenticity of Burial Cloth
Turin archbishop Cardinal Roberto Repole, who serves as the pontifical custodian of the shroud, said his office has 'no reason to comment on hypotheses freely formulated by scientists of varying degrees of credibility.'
