Why+the+body+image+is+not+a+PAINTING

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Many authors have proposed this hypothesis in sligtly different versions, among them we must remember and E. Craig who has obtained perhaps the best reproduction from a macroscopic point of view. The hypotheses of W. McCrone, E. Craig and M.C.Corti are here considered and described.

W. McCrone had the occasion to analyze the STURP sticky tapes samples collected by R. Rogers and detected iron oxide and other elements connected with artists' pigments in them so he simply hypothesized that the TS body image is a painting. Closer examination. __** E. Craig's hypothesis**__ Perhaps the best macroscopic result copying the TS Face was obtained by the "**DUST DRAWING" TECHNIQUE** which consists in a re-drewing of a photo, dipping a brush into a mixture of dry iron oxide and dry gelatin and drawing the “new” face on the photo and then placing a piece of linen over it. Closer examination.
 * __W. McCrone's hypothesis__**

As some STURP scientists affirmed that the body image is like a scorch from the spectal analysis, it is supposed that the image was a particular painting made not by pigments and brushes, but by a rudimental pyrograph build for that purpose in the Middle Ages. Closer examination.
 * __M.C. Corti's hypothesis__**

... To be added. The notion suggested by Walter McCrone that the shroud is a painting done in iron oxide is simply not true. The color of the image is a straw yellow and not red like iron oxide. Eric Jumper repeated over and over again at the Elizabethtown Conference in 1986 -- "The image is yellow, not red. The image is yellow, not red." A wide range of other characteristics including absence of directionality, lack of a preparatory drawing, the negative character of the image, the absence of pigments, the anatomical correctness, comparison with other paintings of the 14th century -- all of these characteristics and many more contradict the notion that the shroud image could be the result of a painter's art.
 * comment made by R. Schneider THE SHROUD IS NOT SIMPLY A PAINTING** ...