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Hardback. New. In 1578, a fourteen-foot linen sheet bearing faint bloodstained imprints was presented to tens of thousands of worshippers in Turin, Italy, as one of the original shrouds used to prepare Jesus Christ's body for entombment. From that year into the next century, the Shroud of Turin emerged as Christianity's preeminent religious artifact. In an unprecedented new look, Andrew R. Casper sheds light on the origins of one of the world's most famous and controversial religious objects. Since the early twentieth century, scores of scientists and forensic investigators have attributed the Shroud's mysterious image to painterly, natural, or even supernatural forces. Casper, however, shows that this modern opposition of artifice and authenticity does not align with the cloth's historical conception as an object of religious devotion. Examining the period of the Shroud's most enthusiastic following, from the late 1500s through the 1600s, he reveals how it came to be…
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- Title An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy
- Author Andrew R. Casper
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 216
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penn State University Press
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780271090399 / 0271090391
- Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 10.17 x 7.31 x 0.69 in (25.83 x 18.57 x 1.75 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Holy Shroud - History - 17th century, Holy Shroud in art
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021023470
- Dewey Decimal Code 232.966
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