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From Copies to an Original: The Contribution of Statistical Methods

By: raffack 28 September 20202 October 2020

Art and Iconography, Presentations and Publicationsaiucd, cluster analysis, Digital Humanities, European Studies, Medieval Badges, Medieval History, Medieval illuminated manuscripts, pilgrimage, Relics And Relic Veneration, roman veronica, statistical analysis

by Amanda Murphy, Felicita Mornata, Raffaella Zardoni. Despite the almost infinite number of existing copies, the exact appearance of the medieval veronica– the sudarium kept in Rome imprinted with the face of Christ – is not known. This paper illustrates an attempt to find the ‘true icon’, creating a sort of identikit by means of the statistical processing of 4500 works, with analysis of the concentration of the copies and their characteristics, together with multivariate analysis tools.