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    Acheiropoieta (redirect from Vera Icon)
    hand'; singular acheiropoieton) — also called icons made without hands (and variants) — are Christian icons which are said to have come into existence miraculously;...
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    Vera Icon (or Head of Christ) is a lost oil-on panel portrait by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, which probably formed half of a since-dismantled...
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    the cloth bearing an image of Jesus's face was known in Latin as the vera icon ("true image"), and that this name for the relic was misinterpreted as...
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    Christ's face. The oldest and best known of these images was called the vera icon ('true image'), which in the popular imagination developed a story of...
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  • School of Music. While there, she composed a goth-rock opera entitled Vera Icon about a homicidal nun. Swift says she "needed an outlet for the anger"...
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    Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress and Playboy Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early...
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    Veronica St. Veronica with the Holy Kerchief The veil of St. Veronica (Vera Icon), c. 1450 Head of Christ on the Sudarium, engraving by Claude Mellan (1649)...
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    by physical contact with Jesus' face. By metathesis of the Latin words vera icon (meaning 'true image') into Veronica, it came to be said that the Veil...
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  • through two copies: one at Antwerp and one in the Harvard Art Museums Vera Icon before 1438 Known from three contemporary workshop copies Madonna of Nicolas...
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    worldwide especially for Early Netherlandish paintings with masterpieces like Vera Icon (van Eyck) and other exceptional paintings for example of Rogier van der...
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