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A new exhibit called \u201cThe Mystery Man\u201d<\/a> has opened at Salamanca Cathedral in Spain and its main attraction is a \u201chyperrealistic<\/a>\u201d model of the body of Christ after His crucifixion. The model, weighing 165.3lbs and measuring 5ft 10\u201d is the culmination of the efforts of many experts, including experts in forensics and special effects under the guidance of Spanish art expert, \u00c1lvaro Blanco<\/a>. \u201cI chose people whose work I had seen and whose technique I trusted. Especially people who worked for the industry, rather than as artists, because as soon as you have an artist, they are going to leave their own style,\u201d Blanco told Pillar Catholic<\/em>. It took six years to study proper proportions and creating the mold and body took four to five months. The body is made of silicon and the hair is real human hair. The model spent eight years in Blanco\u2019s garage before he met up with groups like ArtiSplendore<\/a> and decided to set up the exhibit.<\/p>\n

The measurements for the model were taken from the mysterious Shroud of Turin<\/a>. Centuries old, the Shroud has baffled experts for years as to its authenticity and origin. It is claimed to be \u201cthe single most studied artifact in human history.\u201d Said to be the death shroud that Jesus\u2019s body was wrapped in, the first historical mention of the Shroud appeared in 1354 and it has been housed in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist<\/a> in Turin, Italy since 1578. Many faithful claim that the Shroud contains the bloodstained image of Jesus\u2019s face after his crucifixion and highlights the many wounds, while others claim the Shroud to be a fake. The Catholic Church has no official position on the Shroud. For his part, Blanco spoke in the Shroud\u2019s defense, saying, \u201cThe only way to make this shroud would be to do all of this to a man, to subject him to this horror, to scourge him, to crucify him, crown him with thorns, then pierce his side when he was dead and wrap him in a shroud.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shared images of the model show a body filled with lacerations, with the wounds being based on the injuries described in the Bible, including a gash in the side where a Roman soldier was said to have pierced Christ\u2019s side, as described in John 19:31-37<\/a>. Blanco stated that the model\u2019s full effect is meant to be in person, saying \u201call art has to be seen from a perspective, but hyperrealism has to be experienced up close.\u201d This is not the first model to be based off the Shroud. In 2018, Professor Guilio Fanti of the University of Padua created a 3D \u201ccarbon copy\u201d<\/a> of the Shroud of Turin. \u201cThis statue is the three-dimensional representation in actual size of the Man of the Shroud, created following the precise measurements taken from the cloth in which the body of Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion,\u201d Fanti stated. He also stated he believed the Shroud showed that Christ suffered around 600 different blows on his body.<\/p>\n

Both men show an interest in showing what God\u2019s earthly form looked like on Earth, as well as the torture<\/a> He faced in order to save humanity. The brutality of the crucifixion was most famously portrayed in Mel Gibson\u2019s \u201cPassion of the Christ,\u201d with many believers<\/a> in the Shroud saying the film\u2019s brutality was, \u201caccurately based on studies carried out on the cloth.\u201d Blanco emphasized his model\u2019s intention to highlight Christ as he was in the flesh, saying, \u201cA Christian will see Christ, and a non-believer also sees Christ, because this is the pictorial original of Jesus of Nazareth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new exhibit called \u201cThe Mystery Man\u201d has opened at Salamanca Cathedral in Spain and its main attraction is a \u201chyperrealistic\u201d model of the body of Christ after His crucifixion. 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