The Turin Shroud: In Whose Image? - How Leonardo Da Vinci Fooled History - Softcover

In 1988, carbon dating of the world's most famous Christian relic revealed that it was a medieval or Renaissance forgery. Therefore it could not be Christ's burial cloth, miraculously imprinted with his image, as millions believed.

Yet many questions remained. How could a hoaxer of 500 or more years ago have created an image that appears so astonishingly lifelike when seen in photographic negative? How was such an inexplicable image formed? Who was the genius behind it? And who would have dared to fake the Holy Shroud of Jesus?

Setting out to answer those questions, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince discovered that the faker was none other than Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance artist, scientist, inventor - and hoaxer - whose innovations are acknowledged to have been centuries ahead of his time. They also reconstructed Leonardo's secret technique - becoming the first ever to recreat the Shroud image.

Turin Shroud - In Whose Image? also uncovers the dark secret that lay behind Leonardo's great fake, and asks: is the face of the man on the Shroud not that of Jesus at all?

Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince are the author of The Turin Shroud: In Whose Image? (1994). They live in London.