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Is this the face of Jesus as a boy? Italian police reverse the ageing process on image ...
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 05-05-2015 | By Simon Tomlinson

Posted on 05/05/2015 11:16:21 AM PDT by Red Badger

Is this the face of Jesus as a boy? Italian police reverse the ageing process on image taken from the Turin Shroud to create photo-fit of Christ as a young child

This is the face of Jesus Christ as a child – according to Italian police.

Detectives used computer forensic techniques that have helped to catch mafia bosses to generate the image.

First, they created a photo-fit picture from the facial image in the Turin Shroud, which many believe to be that of Jesus. They then used a computer program to reverse the ageing process by reducing the jaw size, slimming the face and softening the eyes to arrive at the younger Christ.

Italian police use the same digital techniques, but in reverse, to create updated photo-fit images of fugitive mafia bosses whose faces have not been seen for years.


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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: akiane; art; christchild; imageofchristchild; imageofjesus; italianpolice; jesus; jesusaschild; medievalhoax; nasashroud; shroud; shroudofturin; sudariumofoviedo; turin; veronicaveil
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To: Albion Wilde

Wow. That’s David Copperfield.


41 posted on 05/05/2015 2:56:36 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("It is never untimely to yank the rope of freedom's bell." - - Frank Capra)
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To: Swordmaker

Now this is weird.

Would have expected a swarthy, Jewish looking chap. This looks like an artwork rendition of an angel face (yes, yes, real angels don’t look like this). Kid! Put down that hammer! Yer too delicate to be a carpenter!


42 posted on 05/05/2015 3:15:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Red Badger
"Funny; he doesn't look Jewish!"
43 posted on 05/05/2015 3:19:55 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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To: Red Badger

Kinda funny how the world has so many busts, statues, carvings, paintings, sketches and even shrouds with “Authorities” proclaiming them to be renditions of particular individuals when THERE ARE NO NAMES ON THESE OBJECTS IDENTIFYING WHO THEY ARE.

On what part of the Shroud of Turin is the label located with Jesus name on it? It may well be his for real but no one has actually established that for certain.

(PS, and those who claim Jesus didn’t exist are just morons.)

Rant off.


44 posted on 05/05/2015 3:46:08 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: American Constitutionalist

Well that is what that kid said in the book “Heaven Is For Real”


45 posted on 05/05/2015 4:05:59 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...

Ping!


46 posted on 05/05/2015 4:11:55 PM PDT by NYer ("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Would have expected a swarthy, Jewish looking chap. This looks like an artwork rendition of an angel face (yes, yes, real angels don’t look like this). Kid! Put down that hammer! Yer too delicate to be a carpenter!

Israel/Palestine was the crossroads of the ancient world between Europe, Asia, and Egypt. That is one of the reasons it was so fought over and could not establish itself as a kingdom except when there was power vacuums in Babylon and Egypt, such as when the Kingdom of Saul, Jonathan, and David arose. . . and for a time flourished. However, that crossroads meant that the people intermarried with people from many cultures as they passed through. . . or were forced into different locals. Mitochondrial DNA studies show that some Jews are descended from European females in the distant past. . . and today approximately 35% of the Levantine Jews are of a genotype that are not the "swarthy, Jewish looking chap" type you are expecting, but can be tall, lanky and European in appearance. . . some with darker to lighter hair. Recall that the Greeks had ruled Egypt for some three and a half centuries.

A census of a first century Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem, conducted in the 1980s, found that male skeletons averaged 5' 8 3/8" tall. . . 1/8" shorter than the average height of men in the United States today. Their Roman male conquerers averaged 5' 5 1/2" tall. Given a normal height distribution, heights of Jewish men of over six feet was not unusual, just as it is in today's America, and in fact several such skeletons were counted in the cemetery. They were rarer in Rome.

However, I do tend to agree with you that the 2004 regression shows a lot of pious artistic license and made the boy a tad too angelic. (grin) I detect a slight (maybe more than slight) religious bent to the artist who programed the regression. . . and perhaps he/she put a little too much female into the mix?

47 posted on 05/05/2015 4:13:49 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker
There are to this day Middle Easterners who have lighter complexion, eye, and hair color. Recently, an Isis commander who had previously served on Saddam Hussein's military staff died in combat. He had red hair and blue eyes. The Assad family that has ruled Syria for decades could easily pass for European. In Biblical times, King David had a ruddy complexion, as did Esau. In these cases, their coloring could not be credited to European invaders like the Greeks, the Romans, or French and German Crusaders.
48 posted on 05/05/2015 4:25:25 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Albion Wilde

Wanda Sykes?


49 posted on 05/05/2015 4:41:09 PM PDT by Lower55
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Wow. That’s David Copperfield.

I've seen David Copperfield. He's entertaining, but he's no Jesus Christ.

50 posted on 05/05/2015 6:17:22 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: Senator Pardek
In the morning, when I rise...

One of the more beautiful praise songs, ever.

51 posted on 05/05/2015 6:19:56 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
The Orthodox icons don't suffer from this. Blond round-faced Russians still wrote His Face as if they knew how He looks.


52 posted on 05/05/2015 7:56:19 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: BenLurkin
**He looks Italian**

It's the nose. I attended a lecture by a local professor who stated that the Man of the Shroud had a break in his nose, NOT THE BONE, but the cartilage that extends past the bone. This gave the nose a somewhat crooked appearance. The renderer didn't seem to take that into consideration, probably not wanting to deviate too much from the Shroud itself. Stretch the picture a little, cover the nose a bit, and he actually does look like a young, handsome boy. A straighter, shorter nose would have been more age-appropriate.

Being Italian myself, I thought as you did: I had a little button nose as a kid; it didn't look more pronounced, ethnic, until I got older. Same with everybody I grew up with, I guess...

53 posted on 05/05/2015 8:27:43 PM PDT by Grateful2God (Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord...)
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To: Red Badger
from my years of research combined with my profession as a portrait artist, I believe the hair and eye color correct - altho' I would add a touch of sea-green to the eyes -

His eyes have been described a blue, green, sea-green and gray green. I lean towards hazel as hazel eyes appear all the colors named, depending on the color of clothing and objects around the person.

I am disappointed with this regression version - and I note that the nose, particularly, appears wrong/ It seems they didn't account for the broken nose on the face in the shroud...and rendered a young Jesus with the broken nose also -

But this inspire me - I may try my hand at a 'young" Jesus.

One I did years ago - pastel on mylar


54 posted on 05/05/2015 9:35:33 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ( million ii, all)
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To: maine-iac7

Mylar?..................


55 posted on 05/06/2015 6:04:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

“Mylar?”

Yes. I use the ‘one side mat finish’ - it has good tooth...and can be ‘fixed’ with workable fixative as it progresses.

Holds the colors true - and is archival

(I like to experiment - I like Bristol board for pencil -
and I do silver point - have to prepare surface with several layers of gesso (easier than making rabbit glue and grinding down bones for powder like the Old Masters! ;)...)


56 posted on 05/06/2015 6:32:42 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ( million ii, all)
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To: Albion Wilde
Allow me to rephrase.

Wow. That painting of Jesus looks like David Copperfield. (or Kenny Loggins).

57 posted on 05/06/2015 6:43:24 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("It is never untimely to yank the rope of freedom's bell." - - Frank Capra)
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To: maine-iac7

I work with ‘mylar’ every day in my job.

It’s a thin heat resistant plastic used in electronics as an insulator. It can be in sheets or on a roll like masking tape. It is also bought in pre-cut forms like washers and squares for mounting transistors that get hot, since it has excellent thermal properties.

It is also used in manufacturing electronic components, capacitors for instance, since it is an insulator and is very stable over time and heat exposure.

Is the mylar you use clear when new?

If so, then after you paint the portrait and it has dried, try shining a light from BEHIND the portrait some time. You may be pleasantly surprised...................


58 posted on 05/06/2015 6:46:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: annalex

Looks kinda Cryllic...................


59 posted on 05/06/2015 6:48:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

Huh? What’s “Cryllic”?


60 posted on 05/06/2015 8:18:57 AM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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