Posted: Mar 31, 2010 11:14 pm
Luis Dias wrote:Well, since there are a few who believe that the Turin shroud is the most ancient photograph ever devised in the middle ages by da Vinci himself.... who was an egomaniac whose face has the same proportions that he had.... probably these guys figured out how da Vinci looks like....
The “theory” (if it can be dignified by that word) that Leonardo (he’s NOT referred to as “Da Vinci” dammit!) had anything to do with the “Shroud” was dreamed up by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. These two prime kooks also dreamed up all the garbage about Mary Magdalene being the The Last Supper and the rest of the nonsense that Dan Brown shamelessly utilised as his “research” in the execrable The Da Vinci Code. They also wrote another book “proving” that the CIA knows ancient Egyptian monuments and sites are interstellar gateways for UFOs. So hopefully you’re getting the idea about the credibility of these two nutcases.
The “Leonardo made the Shroud” claim is based on nothing more than the following “logic”: (i) the Shroud is amazing, (ii) the Shroud has been carbon-dated to the Middle Ages, (iii) everyone in the Middle Ages were too dumb to fake the Shroud so (iv) so it must have been Leonardo. No evidence links the “Shroud” to Leonardo in any way. And it is first mentioned and depicted over a century before he was born. But kooks never let a lack of evidence or clear counter-arguments get in the way of their a priori conclusions.
What these guys have come up with is a computer simulation of what a Fourteenth Century faker thought Jesus looked like. Not surprisingly, it looks exactly like Medieval depictions of Jesus. What a joke.