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Tribbe, Frank C.
Frank C. Tribbe on Face of Laon Icon in Portrait of Jesus? (1983)
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'. 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 icon was recently displayed at an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Face of Laon Currer-Briggs, Noel on Face of Laon "
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