Holy Shroud, MAYBE SELF LEONARDO
LONDON - The Shroud of Turin is a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, made by the eclectic genius Tuscan by a technique of pre-photographic impression its time. It 's the theory advanced by Lillian Schwartz, a consultant from the School of Visual Arts in New York. That is the scholar who in the eighties showed, through the use of computer analogies between Leonardo's face and that of the Mona Lisa. The Schwartz - his studies will be presented tonight in a documentary broadcast by Channel 5 UK - the same program was used to superimpose the image of Leonardo with that of the Holy Shroud. The results are surprising to him. "Match," said Lillian Schwartz of the Daily Mail. "For me - he said - there is no doubt that the scale on which Leonardo wrote were used to create the face the shroud. "The origin of the imprint in 'negative' would therefore not be attributed to a divine miracle but a miracle of technology Leonardo. How to paint the shroud would have built the first example of the darkroom of history. Da Vinci, according to Schwartz, he hung the linen sheet covered with photosensitive emulsion - gelatin mixed with egg white - in a dark room and sealed. In the face of the sheet, the wall, Leonardo would have a hole in which he placed a lens crystal on a pedestal in front of the lens, da Vinci would have placed a bust of his face. After days of exposure the image of the statue would then be stamped, upside down, hanging on the sheet inside the darkroom. "Crazy," said Lynn Picknett, a scholar of the Holy Shroud. "Who forged the false must have been a heretic, have knowledge of anatomy and have a technique to displace anyone until the twentieth century." The documentary, in this regard, stresses that Leonardo was fascinated by optical instruments and that his notes contain a sketch of the darkroom. But John Jackson, director of studies on the sacred shroud of Colorado, dismissed the hypothesis of Schwartz because "based on poor knowledge of history and science." The earliest reference to the shroud, a commemorative medallion, dating back to the mid-fourteenth century and is preserved in the Cluny museum in Paris. Show - Jackson said - but clearly the clerics are holding the shroud and before the birth of Leonardo about 100 years. " (Mattia Bagnoli Bernardo).