Carlos Otal writes by way of a comment (this is a Google translation):
I think it’s great that the illustrations Rosslin Avetik and Bulls, which I found in Armenian manuscripts, can be disseminated through your excellent blog.
They appear in my blog to great resolution (by clicking on the image) in the post:
http://lasabanaylosescepticos.blogspot.com/2009/09/armenia-3.html
http://lasabanaylosescepticos.blogspot.com/2009/07/armenia-2.html
I’d appreciate YOUR blog reporting in the beautiful cool, despite its decline, the face of Jesus from the destroyed Church of Bakhtaghek etAni, Ayrarat, preserved in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, which show in:
http://lasabanaylosescepticos.blogspot.com/2009/07/armenia-1.html
It was this which prompted fresh search in the Armenian iconography
Carlos Otal
(in my blog my nick is "Maest")
Do click on the larger images. You will not be disappointed. And do study the comparison of image at the Church of Bakhtaghek etAni, Ayrarat to the shroud. Use the thumbnails at the bottom of the page.
Thank you, Carlos.
Looking at the comparison images, the resemblance is uncanny. One of the best paintings/renderings of the Shroud face I’ve ever seen. Is the date known, of that painting?
R.
“Early 13th century”.
Es decir entre los años 1200- 1250.
A good thing to do is to compare the painting above side-by-side with the ‘actual’ negative image seen naturally on the Shroud, “as the artist would have seen it”, then compare. It is astounding actually how close this artist got to a perfect rendition, (as compared to many others).
R