(September 25, 2023 at 8:57 am)ronedee Wrote: Like I said in the beginning...It's back to plain old REBELLION for you!
In the Middle Ages artists exaggerated the body proportions of their subjects to lend them more gravitas. The artist who forged the Shroud was forced to use the contemporary style lest people judged it to be a fake at first glance. But if you saw a real man with the proportions of the image on the Shroud, One, he would have towered over his disciples in the Levant, and Two, his head would seem much too small.
Three, the wound from the nail in the cross comes from his hand. That would not do in a Roman crucifixion.
Four, what's the point of covering his genitals for modesty in the burial when no one would ever look at him anyway? That only makes sense if it's a painting.
I can do this all day.
