From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin : the metamorphosis and manipulation of a legend /
Nicolotti, Andrea.
From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin : the metamorphosis and manipulation of a legend / by Andrea Nicolotti ; edited by Sarah Blick and Laura D. Gelfand. - 1 online resource. - Art and material culture in medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1 2212-4187 ; . - Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 1. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2014-I, ISBN: 9789004262447. .
Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Origins and Traditions -- 3 Shifting Perspectives? -- 4 The Translation of the Image of Edessa -- 5 The Mandylion in Constantinople -- 6 An Overview of Iconography -- 7 The End -- Index of Names.
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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 appeared in mid-fourteenth century France: a long linen bearing the image of Jesus’ corpse, known nowadays as the Holy Shroud of Turin. Some believe the Mandylion and the Shroud to be the same object, first kept in Edessa, later translated to Constantinople, France and Italy. Andrea Nicolotti traces back the legend of the Edessean image in history and art, focusing especially on elements that could prove its identity with the Shroud, concluding that the Mandylion and the Shroud are two distinct objects.
9789004278523
10.1163/9789004278523 DOI
2014023664
Jesus Christ--Relics.
Holy Face of Edessa.
Holy Shroud.
BT587.M3 / N5313 2014
232.9/66
From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin : the metamorphosis and manipulation of a legend / by Andrea Nicolotti ; edited by Sarah Blick and Laura D. Gelfand. - 1 online resource. - Art and material culture in medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1 2212-4187 ; . - Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 1. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2014-I, ISBN: 9789004262447. .
Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Origins and Traditions -- 3 Shifting Perspectives? -- 4 The Translation of the Image of Edessa -- 5 The Mandylion in Constantinople -- 6 An Overview of Iconography -- 7 The End -- Index of Names.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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 appeared in mid-fourteenth century France: a long linen bearing the image of Jesus’ corpse, known nowadays as the Holy Shroud of Turin. Some believe the Mandylion and the Shroud to be the same object, first kept in Edessa, later translated to Constantinople, France and Italy. Andrea Nicolotti traces back the legend of the Edessean image in history and art, focusing especially on elements that could prove its identity with the Shroud, concluding that the Mandylion and the Shroud are two distinct objects.
9789004278523
10.1163/9789004278523 DOI
2014023664
Jesus Christ--Relics.
Holy Face of Edessa.
Holy Shroud.
BT587.M3 / N5313 2014
232.9/66