hand'; singular acheiropoieton) — also called icons made without hands (and variants) — are Christian icons which are said to have come into existence miraculously;...

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...

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...

Věra Čáslavská (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvjɛra ˈtʃaːslafskaː]; 3 May 1942 – 30 August 2016) was a Czechoslovak artistic gymnast and Czech sports official...

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...

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"...

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...

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)...

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 of...

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...