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The first hyper-realistic body of Christ based on the Holy Shroud is on exhibit in Spain
Catholic News Agency ^ | April 7, 2023 | Nicolás de Cárdenas, Peter Pinedo

Posted on 04/08/2023 7:32:28 AM PDT by DoodleBob

This Holy Week, Gaudix Cathedral in Granada, Spain, is hosting the exhibition of the first hyper-realistic recreation of the body of Christ based on data obtained from the Shroud of Turin.

The exhibit first opened at Salamanca Cathedral in central Spain and will remain in Granada until June 30, after which it will tour Europe for the remainder of 2023.

The sculpture, made of latex and silicone, weighs about 165 pounds.

The posture is of the deceased Christ in rigor mortis. The legs are somewhat bent, hands crossed at the level of the pubis. There is no false modesty in the figure. The entire body of the man on the Shroud is visible, nothing omitted, including circumcision.

Video of the installation

The hair that has been used is human and can be seen all over the body, from the feet to the head with all realism, without leaving out a detail.

When one approaches the figure — with hands behind one’s back in accordance with exhibit rules for visitors — one can observe every pore of the skin, freckles, eyelashes, and eyebrows.

The back is slightly raised, making apparent the lacerations on the head caused by the crown of thorns, and there is a kind of small braid that ties the hair on the back of the head. Also seen are the bruises on the shoulders due to carrying the weight of the cross.

On the skin you can see each of the tearing wounds produced by the scourging and the traces of the nails in the hands and feet, as well as the one between the fifth and sixth ribs on the right side. The nose is broken and the right eye bruised.


A close up of the hyper-realistic model of the crucified Jesus based on the Shroud of Turin. ARTISPLENDORE

While it was on display in his diocese, Bishop Jose Luis Retana Gozalo of Salamanca said that this hyper-realistic representation does not imply a “theological conflict,” because the Mystery has become flesh. On the contrary, “it will be an aid to see the Mystery, a call towards the Mystery.”

In addition to the figure representing the crucified Christ, there is a preliminary exhibit that puts the viewer in context about the reality of the scourging and crucifixion and the research into the Holy Shroud.

The hyper-realistic sculpture tries to present before the viewer a “body of human quality without artistic movement,” without interpretation, made from multidisciplinary scientific data based on studies on the Holy Shroud.

The curator of the exhibition, Álvaro Blanco, who dedicated more than 15 years of research into its realization, gives a lengthy prior explanation of the historical and scientific data that culminates in the hyper-realistic body.

Blanco confessed during the presentation of the exhibition in the sacristy of the Cathedral of Salamanca that at the moment of seeing the finished body he was convinced that “he was before Jesus, he was before the image of the body of Jesus of Nazareth.”

A group of artists created the sculpture under Blanco’s direction.

“The Mystery Man” is presented by ArtiSplendore, a company specializing in cultural and artistic patrimony exhibitions and tourism.

“In the next 20 years we want to go to churches around the world,” said the company’s executive director.

Blanca Ruiz Antón, another spokesperson for the exhibit, told CNA that “Italy will be our next location after Guadix,” adding that though there are no current plans to do so, they “would love to go to the States.”


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Religion; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: gaudixcathedral; granada; hh2; jesus; salamancacathedral; shroudofturin; spain
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

What was created by the artist - the realistic depiction - was based on THE ACTUAL OBJECT (the shroud). It was NOT based on a legend.

This is not difficult to understand.


61 posted on 04/08/2023 8:04:14 PM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998

As usual, you’ve missed the point, and that’s fine.


62 posted on 04/08/2023 8:38:06 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: combat_boots

Agree.


63 posted on 04/08/2023 9:42:29 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: Nifster

When I saw this, that was the very first phrase that entered my mind.


64 posted on 04/08/2023 9:45:49 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: DoodleBob

I’ve been studying the Shroud since I was in 6th grade(I’m 58 now!). I’ve read every book, pro and con, any peer reviewed scientific studies I could get my hands on, and I’m convinced the Shroud is authentic.


65 posted on 04/08/2023 10:07:03 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ("Our hearts are restless, Oh Lord, until they rest in thee"- St. Augustine)
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To: Mean Daddy

Thank you. No reference to wounds in that passage. The hearer must infer them.


66 posted on 04/09/2023 4:12:41 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (/s)
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To: Trump_Triumphant

I got to see the Shroud in 1978, It was a marvelous experience. After dinner that night walked by the Cathedral and could see them setting up for the scientific study’s that were to follow the public viewing.


67 posted on 04/09/2023 7:33:58 AM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (Read The Screwtape letters, section “Screwtape Proposes a Toast”)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

As usual, you’re wrong and that’s expected.


68 posted on 04/09/2023 8:13:45 AM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Quit trolling.


69 posted on 04/09/2023 7:05:19 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
You sure seem to pop up and call people trolls an awful lot.

You do realize that makes you a troll, right?

70 posted on 04/09/2023 11:10:00 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

“IMHO, this is a work of art based upon a set of assumptions, which may or may not be correct. Even if all of the assumptions are correct, it is still just an artist’s impression of how Jesus appeared under the shroud, with the artist’s imagination, biblical accounts, and two thousand years of prior art filling in the blanks from the limited forensic information that could be derived from the shroud itself.”

Try reading up on the scientific investigations of the image on the Shroud, you’re shooting from the hip.

The “artist’s” work her is not so much “interpretation” as rendering into 3-D form the data/image imprinted on the shroud: which itself cannot even be reproduced by modern physicists: the do not even have a good mechanism to explain how it was formed. It is for that reason that the weasel word “legend” used in this thread is inadequate, because in context, it implies the Shroud is “known” to have been a man-made relic or scrap of cloth, and either pious or scheming interlopers took the opportunity to attach it to the story of the Crucifixion.


71 posted on 04/10/2023 8:06:04 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Well...the fact is Jesus is alive, he walked among us before and after he was buried before he went to His father. Which is far far more exciting and worthy of our attention as we serve a risen Christ....than some artists depiction of a mans dead body.


72 posted on 04/10/2023 8:20:36 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: vladimir998

“Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen.”

(Luke 24:5b-6 NKJV)


73 posted on 04/10/2023 8:23:46 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: caww

He died and rose. I want to embrace both His death and Resurrection. 1 Cor. 2:1-2


74 posted on 04/10/2023 3:29:03 PM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998
I want to embrace both His death and Resurrection.
With good reason: That Christ died a real death is the necessary condition precedent for the reality of His Resurrection.
75 posted on 04/10/2023 3:56:57 PM PDT by eastsider
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