Giuseppe Enrie
Santo volto del Divin Redentore (Particolare della Santissima Sindone)

Santo volto del Divin Redentore (Particolare della Santissima Sindone)
Santo volto del Divin Redentore (Particolare della Santissima Sindone)
ArtistItalian, 1886–1961
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Santo volto del Divin Redentore (Particolare della Santissima Sindone)
  • Holy Face of the Divine Redeemer (Detail of the Holy Shroud)
Date1931
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 11 1/2 × 9 1/4 in. (29.2 × 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 9 1/4 in. (29.2 × 23.5 cm)
Mount: 16 5/16 × 12 3/8 in. (41.5 × 31.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. and Susie Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2019.232
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionHighly venerated but rarely displayed, the Holy Shroud of Turin is believed by faithful Catholics to be the burial cloth of Christ and to bear his image divinely imprinted as if by photography. When the miraculous relic was displayed in 1931 for the first time since 1898, Giuseppe Enrie was commissioned to carefully photograph it in the presence of a priest and scientist. In subsequent years, his photographs were widely distributed as sacred souvenirs.
Provenance[Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 19th-21st Century Photography, June 5, 2019, Lot 4129]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
On mount recto, top, in brown type: SANTO VOLTO DEL DIVIN REDENTORE // (PARTICOLARE DELLA S. SINDONE); On mount recto, bottom center, in brown type: Adoramus Te, Christe, et Benedicimus Tibi; On mount recto, lower left, in brown ink: [Ecclesiastical Insignia] Vo. per l'autenticità // + Maurilio Arciv.; BRC: IL PRESIDENTE DELLA COMMISSIONE ESECUTIVA // Giov. Battista [Illegible];; On mount recto, bottom, in brown type: TORINO 3-24 MAGGIO 1931

Artist’s blind stamp on sheet recto, lower left: FOT.CAV.G.ENRIE, RIPRODUZIONE INTERDETTA; Attribution printed on mount recto, lower left, in brown ink: Cav. G. ENRIE FOTOGRAFO RIPRODUZIONE INTERDETTA.

Inscribed in pencil, verso, center: 3hg [?] [illegible] au el // 4 // [illegible with line through it]

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