> > And as a side note, from the fringe: Ian Wilson has the interesting (but
> > probably unprovable) theory that the predominance of the "Byzantine
Christ"
> > form in Christian art of late antiquity occured through a re-discovery
of
> > what later became known as the Shroud of Turin.
>
> At the risk of stating the obvious, doesn't the recent
> dating of the Shroud to the late medieval period cast some
> doubt on this?
No, as the results of the recent Shroud dating seem not to be correct.
Little by little we are receiving information of on-academic behaviour of
some univesities which were contacted to do the expertise on some fragments
of the Shroud.
St.R.W. Vermeire.
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