Face of Laon: Shroud of Turin Terms

Face of Laon Icon in Laon, France, ca 1201 (From Constantinople, Pre-1204-Sacking)

Icon of Christ's face on the handkerchief (a Mandylion or version of the Veronica)

Recently displayed at an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The Face of Laon was brought to France in 1249. Jacques Pantaleon de Troyes, later to become Pope Urban IV, sent the icon to a church near Laon at the Cistercian convent of Montreuil-les-Dames, La Neuville. It seems to have been a gift to his sister.

Jesus' face is very soft without clearly defined shadows or outlines. Many scholars believed it was copied from the face of the Shroud. Frank C. Tribbe wrote in Portrait of Jesus?":

The "Face of Laon" icon in a church in Laon, France is obviously copied from the Mandylion/Shroud, and its paleo-Slav inscription refers to the source as the 'Image of the Lord on cloth'.

Face of Laon

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	How the images might have formed. Images on the Shroud of Turin.
	Hints from Edessa, 544 AD. Early Shroud of Turin History.
	How a medieval artisan caused Carbon 14 Dating Errors.
	Startling, Mysterious, Unexplained. The 3D Encoding of the Shroud.
	The Variegated Cloth. Fooled by the Shroud's Background Noise.
	The Art Connection. Christ Pantocrator and the Shroud of Turin.
	Was the Shroud of Turin Described? Voices from the Past
	Medical Perspective: Forensic Pathology of the Images
	The Second Face: From the Back of the Cloth
	Some say . . . Painted, Leonardo da Vinci, Jacques deMolay, Coins, etc.