The Many Faces of Christ by Michele Bacci

Author:Michele Bacci
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books

However, this was not the only possible solution. Other authors preferred to think that the corn-coloured skin was the blending of the red and white colours mentioned in the Song of Songs. The fourteenth-century German visionary Heinrich Seuse, who had the chance to contemplate in ecstasy the skin of Jesus looking ‘yellowish like corn’, came to such a conclusion and declared that he had seen ‘the most natural of all colours’.138

86 Replica of the Edessan Mandylion, 13th century. Genoa, church of San Bartolomeo degli Armeni.

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