http://www.wtfnews.org/ Stories tagged Renaissance en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 13:17:43 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/science-technology/is-this-the-real-face-of-jesus/ Jesus was 5'8", swarthy and looked nothing like the Renaissance painters' depictions of Christ, according to a reconstruction based on the Turin Shroud. Using the latest 3-D computer technology, a team of digital artists have created what they claim is the real face of Jesus. The contours of the face and body were taken from the ghostly face imprinted on the Shroud, the bloodied linen sheet said to have covered the body of Christ in his tomb. M... ]]> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:10:33 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/science-technology/is-this-the-real-face-of-jesus/ http://www.wtfnews.org/religion/turin-shroud-the-creation-of-a-renaissance-artist/ Luciano Buso claims to have found Giotto di Bondone's signature hidden in the 14ft-long, sepia-coloured burial cloth, as well as the number 15. The historian believes that the number is a reference to 1315, and that the artist was commissioned in that year to come up with an exact copy of the relic because the original was badly damaged after centuries of being hawked around the Holy Land and Europe. Mr Buso, who has laid out his controversial thesis in a new book, said the... ]]> Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:07:22 -0400 http://www.wtfnews.org/religion/turin-shroud-the-creation-of-a-renaissance-artist/