My first recollection of being introduced to The Shroud of Turin occurred when I was eleven years old. My parents had offered my brother and sister and me the opportunity to visit Italy instead of celebrating our traditional Christmas. While there, we visited the Christian catacombs and in the souvenir shop, they had these 4 x 6 pictures that depicted a painting of Jesus, but when tilted, showed a head shot of The Shroud of Turin. Unsure of what I was seeing, I asked my father to explain it. He said the Shroud head shot was part of a much larger image that showed the front and back of a crucified man that matched the Bible’s Gospel narrative exactly. This cloth was kept in a church in Turin, Italy, thus the name. He said many people, including scholars, believed the Shroud had wrapped the actual body of Jesus, while others believed it was a medieval forgery. My initial reaction was that there was no way the burial cloth of the historical Jesus had made it to modern times. It had to be a fake. However, after investigating the topic of the Shroud, my views soon changed. The bulk of the evidence is in favor of the Shroud of Turin being the authentic burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
What exactly is the Shroud of Turin? The Shroud is an ivory colored linen cloth measuring 14 feet 3 inches long by 3 feet 7 inches wide. The interesting thing about this size cloth is that it matches up with the 1st century Jewish cubit exactly measuring 8 x 2 cubits. The Shroud is a single piece cloth with a 3 in 1 herringbone weave, a type of weave that was prevalent in Jesus’s time. On the cloth, is the superficial image of the front and back of what appears to be a scourged and crucified man. The man is nude, approximately 6 feet tall with long hair and a...
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It is my belief, based on the evidence, that the Shroud either wrapped the body of Jesus or it was made by a forger who wanted to create the false belief that it wrapped the body of Jesus.
If you are to believe that the Shroud is a forgery you would have to accept the following facts. The forger made the Shroud by a method as yet unknown to modern science. They did the Shroud in a "negative" image some 400 years before the invention of photography. The Shroud is unique in that there are no known Shrouds like it. They applied real male blood. They did it with Jesus nude which was rare in paintings at the time. The wounds were in the wrist unlike most art work that had the wounds in the hand. They were able to somehow encode 3D information into the Shroud. They applied pollen specific to the Jerusalem area.
which cover his waist and some of his torso. He is holding a very tall, slender cross in his left hand, while looking with a diffused look to the right. Also, to the left of him (to the right from the viewer’s perspective) there is a sheep lying upon a rock.
Millions of words have been written about the remarkable cloth preserved at Turin. More recently, most of these writings dealt with one basic question, was it the actual winding sheet of the crucified Christ, bearing an imprint of His body? Or was the whole thing a gigantic hoax? A fantastic forgery of the Middle Ages? Erudite men have lined up on both sides of that compelling query. Some of the facts about the Holy Shroud have something to do with the presence of human blood and other strong evidences of its authenticity, it intensified man's curiosity. The researcher himself was also puzzled and came up with this study. In the words of John Walsh, "the facts here have always been available in newspapers, books, documents and human memory, but they have been difficult to gather. I have sought them, off and on, for four years, finally visiting Europe in the search. But I have not set them down here in any effort to convince. Indeed, the reader must come to his own conclusion."(Walsh 1963, p: 1.) Being open minded to both parties the pros and cons plays an important part in conducting this research paper, as what authors Pickenett and Prince said " Undertaking this study with a completely open mind, being equally ready to affirm that the shroud was absurd fraud, or to recognize its authenticity, but gradually forced to agree, on every single point that its markings were exact."(Picknett & Prince 2000, p:5.). Thus, it was a test for scientist and experts to show how these evidences support the possibilities of its authenticity.
Lines are probably one of the most emphasized elements in this piece, as Jesus is almost completely made from lines and he is the center piece of this work. The Lines were used to define boundaries of shapes and spaces in most of Jesus like his hair and clothes. Also, lines were grouped to depict shadows and form patterns or textures, in his neck, head, hands, and clothes. It’s safe to say that Jesus in this piece is made up almost entirely of lines, with little shading and no color. Therefore it intertwines with the other elements like shape, mass, light, color, and texture in this piece, which is great as the piece would of have seemed more flat and inhumane. Also space, but more particularly implied depth was used on the sun behind Jesus with vertical placement and overlap elements. Probably to emphasize the holiness of Jesus as the sun is portrayed shinning on him and is the only real color used in this piece. There is no actual motion, but implied motion using Jesus’s hands that was used to make this piece seem more real and not as
Discovered in 1889 during the demolition of an ancient tomb along a Roman road from Capranica to Vetralla, the marble garland sarcophagus depicts in “the best style of Roman art” (American Journal 220) a scene from the myth of Theseus and Ariadne. After acquisition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art a year later, a general background concerning the artifact was established. Originating sometime in the middle second century C.E during the Hadrianic or early Antonine period of the Roman Empire, the sarcophagus medium exists in Luni and Pentellic marble and stands 31 by 85 by 28 inches (McCann 27). The adornments upon the marble are many: the lid features winged erotes on chariots led by four different animals to represent the four seasons-bear for spring, bull for fall, lion for summer, and boar for winter (Hanfmann 180)-the front displays more erotes with “seasonal garlands composed of flowers, wheat, grapes, pomegranates, and laurel (McCann 33),” and the various scenes from the myth of Theseus above the swags but below the garlands from left to right show Ariadne giving Theseus the thread to navigate through the labyrinth, Theseus in battle with the minotaur of Crete, and Theseus gazing back at Ariadne as he leaves Naxos. In addition, a comic mask and a young satyr call the right side of the sarcophagus their home.
There may be a middle ground for this, but it does not help the archeologist’s, Heinrich Schliemann, character anymore. Some considered the mask may be authentic, “but that Schliemann quickly subjected it to an overzealous restoration to make the face of “Agamemnon” more heroic and noble.”(Stokstad, 97) Society has seen this sort of restoration happened multiple times in the past and it is all towards the restorer/archeologist’s ego, not towards the path of enlighten knowledge. Though despite Schliemann’s efforts, he still did succeed in one thing, by his attempts, he did still make it seem like a King was buried in the tomb he had unearthed, for this helped society to understand how the Mycenaean’s buried their
The Count and many other characters in The Count of Monte Cristo are very prideful and will do anything to not shame their family name, but they will try to shame to other peoples names. For example, when the Count through a party at his house in Auteuil. At the exact same house where Villefort and Madame Danglars had their affair. When the Count was showing everyone the house tour, he took them to the room where Madame Danglar gave birth to the baby and started telling them the exact story of what happened to Villefort and Madame Danglars almost telling everyone it was real and who it happened to. The Count uses great imagery in explaining the room “...look at those somber, blood colored hanging; and those two faded portraits...”(Dumas 260). The Count is using clear details to describe what happened that day when the baby was born and that room doesn’t look like it has changed. While in “Ozymandias” the details the traveler gives describe what the statue looks like and where it is. “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.”(line 2,3). These details tell you that that the statue only has legs with no upper body attached. Saying that is in the desert also tells you that the statue probably isn’t around anything else and is in the middle of nothing. Both pieces of the text evidence help you image and describes what the object looks
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas was created by Caravaggio in 1603.This painting is his take on the biblical story of the apostle Peter no believing Christ was real even after his resurrection.His choice of a dark background exemplifies no given place in history as it was taken to show that this event is eternal.Many common people at the time saw this painting to be a reflection of their own.As the story goes,Peter had had not belived in Jesus until he was faced with him and had touched hie woumd.When this painting was created it gave people that sence of wanting to rech out ti more religoius courses so that they would not b like Peter wehrer he had to see to belive.
I feel that the scenes with Jesus seeming to look at the actions occurring in the film is anti-illusionist. Many of these scenes have a blue tint to them, breaking the "illusion" and bringing attention to the medium through the unnatural coloring. Furthermore, Jesus' head appears to turn to look at the action that is going on. The audience knows that this could not really happen because Jesus would not have been alive during the time that the film was created and because these scenes seem to have been taken from a previous film and edited to where Jesus' head is facing the characters in the subsequent scenes.
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These three tests when applied to the Bible show it as the most historically reliable text known to man, thus the events found upon the pages of the Bible are actual historically proven events. In light of these facts, there are still many theories other than that of the Biblical account. Three of them include the "Visionary" theory, the theft theory, and the wrong tomb theory. The first theory is that of Strauss, that the appearances of Jesus after His death on the cross were "visions generated by the imaginations of the disciples (Ramsey 48)." This may be the easiest of all the theories to discredit. First of all, it does not take into account the inability of the disciples to grasp this idea that Christ was alive and to recognize Him for who He was (Ramsey 48).
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It’s the second day of class, you don’t think your teacher will discuss any interesting topics. So you decide to just tone out the teacher and rest until class is over. But, the teacher notices that the class seems to be falling asleep and decides to discuss an interesting topic that catches your attention; Ancient Egypt. More specifically, the detailed description of the Egyptian mummification process. Now you are wondering what relationship it has with religion and medicine. Although Egyptian mummification has a weak relationship with medicine, it has a strong relationship with religion as demonstrated by the purpose of the organs of the mummy, the ceremony of “Opening of the Mouth,” the importance of achieving an afterlife, and the soul