West European painter "The Veil of Veronica"
Description
Oil on canvas.
Framed: 56x66 (39x49) cm
Acheiropoieta "made without hand" — also called Icons Made Without Hands (and variants) — are Christian icons which are said to have come into existence miraculously; not created by a human. Invariably these are images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary. The term is also used of icons that are only regarded as normal human copies of a miraculously created original archetype.
The Veil of Veronica, also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is believed to be Christian relic consisting of a piece of cloth said to bear an image of the Holy Face of Jesus produced by other than human means (an acheiropoieton, "made without hand"). Various existing images have been claimed to be the original relic, as well as early copies of it; representations of it are also known as vernicles.