Editing Image of Edessa (section)

==Surviving images==
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Three images survive today which are associated with the [[Mandylion]].

===Shroud of Turin===
{{Main article|Shroud of Turin#History}}

Author [[Ian Wilson (author)|Ian Wilson]] has argued that the object venerated as the Mandylion from the 6th to the 13th centuries was in fact the Shroud of Turin, folded in four, and enclosed in an oblong frame so that only the face was visible.<ref>{{Harvnb|Wilson|1991}}</ref> Wilson cites documents in the [[Vatican Library]] and the [[University of Leiden]], Netherlands, which seem to suggest the presence of another image at Edessa. A 10th-century codex, ''Codex Vossianus Latinus'' Q 69,<ref>From the library of [[Gerhard Johann Vossius]].</ref> found by Gino Zaninotto in the [[Vatican Library]], contains an 8th-century account saying that an imprint of Christ's whole body was left on a canvas kept in a church in Edessa: it quotes a man called Smera in Constantinople: "King Abgar received a cloth on which one can see not only a face but the whole body" ({{langx|la| [non tantum] faciei figuram sed totius corporis figuram cernere poteris}}).<ref>''Codex Vossianus Latinus'', Q69, and Vatican Library, Codex 5696, fol.35, which was published in Pietro Savio, ''Ricerche storiche sulla Santa Sindone'' Turin 1957.</ref>

===Holy Face of Genoa===
This image is kept in the [[Church of St Bartholomew of The Armenians, Genoa|Church of St Bartholomew of The Armenians]] in [[Genoa, Italy]].  In the 14th century it was donated to the [[doge of Genoa]] Leonardo Montaldo by the Byzantine Emperor [[John V Palaeologus]].

It has been the subject of a detailed 1969 study by Colette Dufour Bozzo, who dated the outer frame to the late 14th century,<ref>{{Harvnb|Wilson|1991|p=162}}</ref> giving a [[terminus ante quem]] for the inner frame and the image itself. Bozzo found that the image was imprinted on a cloth that had been pasted onto a wooden board.<ref>{{Harvnb|Wilson|1991|p=88}}</ref><ref>[http://www.mpg.de/bilderBerichteDokumente/dokumentation/jahrbuch/2005/kunsthistorisches_institut/forschungsSchwerpunkt1/index.html ''Das Mandylion von Genua und sein paläologischer Rahmen - The Mandylion of Genoa''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114220342/http://www.mpg.de/bilderBerichteDokumente/dokumentation/jahrbuch/2005/kunsthistorisches_institut/forschungsSchwerpunkt1/index.html |date=2007-11-14 }} (in German) See also: [http://www.eikonikon.nl/bulletin/2003/frankenweg.php ''Annalen van de stad Genua uit de 14de eeuw beschrijven dat het de echte Edessa-mandylion betreft''] (in Dutch)</ref>

The similarity of the image with the [[Veil of Veronica]] suggests a link between the two traditions.

===Holy Face of San Silvestro===
This image was kept in Rome's church of [[San Silvestro in Capite]], attached to a convent of [[Poor Clares]], up to 1870, and is now kept in the Matilda chapel in the [[Vatican Palace]]. It is housed in a Baroque frame added by Sister Dionora Chiarucci, head of the convent, in 1623.<ref>{{Harvnb|Wilson|1991|p=193}}</ref> The earliest evidence of its existence is 1517, when the nuns were forbidden to exhibit it to avoid competition with the Veronica. Like the Genoa image, it is painted on board and therefore is likely to be a copy. It was exhibited at Germany's Expo 2000 in the pavilion of the Holy See.

<gallery class="center" heights="200px" widths="150px">
Image:Holy Face - Genoa.jpg|The Holy Face of [[Genoa]].
Image:Sainte Face - Genes.jpg|The Holy Face of Genoa with the face more visible.
Image:39bMandylion.jpg|The image from San Silvestro (Matilda chapel in the [[Vatican Palace]]).
Image:Mandylion visage.jpg|The San Silvestro image with the face more visible.
</gallery>