Paul Badde is convinced it's genuine. "In 2010, this topic received worldwide media attention thanks to German journalist and author Paul Badde and his controversial book titled, The Face of God: The Rediscovery of the True Face of Jesus, in which he claimed, 'the image in Manoppello is clearly visible and, moreover, when laid over the image of the face of the Shroud of Turin forms a perfect match.'" But how then does he explain that it doesn't meet any of the the conditions for authenticity? It is mainly his conformational bias at work. The fact is that there are only 11 points of congruity between the Shroud and the Manoppello veil cited by all those who believe in its authenticity.
Marks of wounds include: a swelling of both eyebrows (1) and a crosscut of the left eyebrow (2), a triangular-shaped wound on the right cheek close to the nose (3), a swelling of the yoke bone below the left eye (4), a swelling below the right eye (5), the swollen nose and a deformation of the nose septum with the bruised cartilage (6), and a swelling of the upper lip (7). Other characteristic marks on the Shroud Face which can be easily identified in Figure 5 include: a forked beard (8), a hairless area between the lower lip and the beard (9), an enlarged left nostril (10), a few strands of hair at the top of the forehead (11), and maybe also a transverse streak across the forehead (12), which is however not clear in the images in Figure 4.
have looked at the 11 points every believer cites and they are about the level of seeing bunny rabbits in clouds and most of them are the results of his and other believer in the Manoppello veil's authenticity's wishful thinking, and most people literally cannot see them. That means that both the Shroud face and the image of Manoppello are Men's faces. That's about it. In reality, they are not even the same size with the Shroud face being about 5% larger. The comparisons were done with size adjusted photographs.
The scientific examination of computerized analysis that rejected the image as an art work, incapable of being analyzed biometrically is more proof. The anatomy is all wrong. Some of the evidence for example is that the eyebrows depicted on the Manoppello image "grow" the wrong direction for a human eyebrow.
See the difference?
No human eyebrow grows the way depicted on the image. The hairs on the image "flow" backwards, toward the eyes and the bridge of the nose, instead of away from the eyes, upward and toward the temples.
In a normal face or skull, the Axis of eyes are located exactly in the middle. . . with 50% of the head above, and 50% below. That is the case in the Shroud, but only about 35% of the Manappello image is above the eyes. No match. Poorly proportioned.
Then there are the problems with the image of the teeth. I manage a dental office. The teeth shown in the Manoppello image are completely unrealistic. They are not centered with the cupid's bow of the upper lip, the comparative width's of the four incisor teeth are incorrect for natural teeth, and there are no signs of the cuspid teeth (the canines) which should be prominent showing points on either side of the incisors. Further, what looks to be a double row of other teeth behind the first row, are actually the painted teeth of the obverse image showing through from the back side. Oops. Poor image registration.
The Manoppello Mouth with "teeth".
It is obvious to any dentist. The ones in my office laughed when they saw them. AND, 353, microscopic examination of the Manopello Veronica fibers has found plenty of pigments, including white ocher for the whites of the eyes and the teeth. It's a painting.
The Shroud shows an image of a MAN with a full forked beard and mustache while this shows a wispy, wanna-be beard and mustache of a young teen-age boy. There are no comparisons of those facial hair features except that both have them. It is absurd to compare them and claim they are equivalent.
Side-by-side comparisons with the photos made as close to the same size as possible should let you see how UNALIKE the images are.
Note particularly the complete differences in the fuller beard and mustache in the Shroud.
As i said, i believe it is probably an early work by a boy who later became a master artist, Raphael. Painting on Byssus or Cambric, a "canvas" that is so fine the brush or even a breath would move the material can account for much of the crudities. But it is not realistic. It is at best a cartoon.