so what about the Veil of Mannopello??? The Mannopello Veronica has been proven to be a painting. It's attributed to Raphael and was written about and described in contemporaneous letters by Raphael in letters to Dürer in which both artists talked about the technique of creating self portraits on Byssus or Cambric cloth. The Mannoppello Veronica is a dead ringer for Raphael at age 26-30, the time he was experimenting with this technique, 100 years before the veil was donated by "a soldier who claimed to have stolen 'Veronica's Veil' from the Vatican"... Except the Vatican still has Veronica's Veil on display and has no reports of any theft or attempted theft!.
"It's attributed to Raphael and was written about and described in contemporaneous letters by Raphael in letters to Dürer in which both artists talked about the technique of creating self portraits on Byssus or Cambric cloth. "
Where are the references to those letters???????
Guilo Romano inherited Durer's painting. It was sent in the tradition of communicational portraits. In return , Raphael sent drawings out of his workshop...with one historian claiming the drawings were really those of Romano.
None of the transparent paintings done by Durer that exist today look like the cloth used in the Veil.
Vasari said Durer's portrait was on exceedingly fine linen.
Among the many problems with Roberto Falcinelli is that he thinks Marcantonio is Durer - it isn't and Guilo Romano is Raphael - it isn.t Vasari said the man to the right of Marcantonio Raimondi (who Durer sued) is not Raphael - it's Guilo Romano.
