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Secondo Pai Shroud Analysis

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What is your understanding of the image on the shroud from a photographic point of view? Tell me about the “negative image” of the shroud and the discovery of photographer Secondo Pai?

In my opinion the image of the shroud is a cloth that is suppose to be Jesus body print which energy/sweat that made it show the body print on the cloth they found the cloth in 1578, over 400 years ago .Prior to that it was in France for another 200 years beginning in 1356 in italy,turin. It is a 14-foot piece of linen of Christ’s burial cloth. They say that it what appears to be the imprinted image of a man bearing wounds from a crucifixion AKA Jesus son of God . Some people say the whole thing is a fake .The Shroud is certainly one of the most argumentative …show more content…
In 1988, scientists at three different laboratories they collected dated samples from the Shroud to a range of AD 1260 to 1390 they was the first certain appearance of the shroud in the 1350 and is much later than the burial of Jesus christ .In 1988 test continue to be debated.Despite some concerns have been raised about radiocarbon dating of the Shroud most experts assert that it is dependable,another way of explaining it is In 2002, a team of experts did restoration work, such as removing the patches from 1534 and replacing the backing cloth. One of the specialists was Swisss textile historian Mechthild Flury Lemberg. She was surprised to find a peculiar stitching pattern in the seam of one long side of the Shroud, where a three inch wide of the same original fabric was sewn onto a larger segment. The stitching pattern, which she says was the work of a professional, is quite similar to the hem of a cloth found in the tombs of the Jewish fortress of Masada. The Masada cloth dates to between 40 BC and 73 AD.This kind of stitch has never been found in Medieval

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