Title: The Holy Shroud
Artist: Georges Rouault
Medium: Oil on paper on canvas
Size: 74 x 51cm
Date: 1928
Location: National Gallery of Victoria,
The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth), or simply "The Veronica" is a Catholic relic, which, according to legend, bears the likeness of the face of Jesus not made by human hand (i.e. an Acheiropoieta). The legend recounts that Veronica from
While the story has no basis in written history prior to the Middle Ages, there is no doubt that there was a physical image displayed in Rome in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries which was known and venerated as the Veil of Veronica. The history of that image is however, somewhat problematic. Firm recording of the Veronica only begins in 1199 when two pilgrims made two accounts a visit to
For the next three hundred years the Veronica was regarded as the most precious of all Christian relics. When the Sack of Rome occurred in 1527, some writers recorded that the veil had been destroyed, while others testify to its continuing presence in the
Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871 – 13 February 1958) was a French painter, and printmaker. Rouault was born in
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