An Artful Relic : : The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy / / Andrew R. Casper.
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 Christia...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 5 color/43 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Relic, Image, and Devotion
- 2 Made Not Begotten: The Shroud as Divine Artifice
- 3 The Art of Resurrection
- 4 Reproducing the Shroud
- 5 The Roman Shroud of Turin: Relic, Icon, Copy
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index