Art historian says he has spotted artist Giotto's signature
(NEWSER) - The "miraculous" Shroud of Turin is not the actual burial cloth that covered Christ's body, but is merely the work of a Renaissance artist. That's the claim in an explosive new Italian book. Many Catholics believe the shroud shows a mysterious, miraculous image of Christ's body, and experts have struggled for years to prove once and for all that the cloth is either authentic or a clever historical fake . But an art historian now claims that early Italian artist Giotto created the image on the cloth, reports the Telegraph . Luciano Buso says he has spotted the artist's signature on the cloth and the number 15, a reference to 1315, the year Buso says Giotto was commissioned to create the "shroud." More»
