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The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth), also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is a Christian relic consisting of a piece of cloth said to bear an image of the Holy Face of Jesus produced by other than human means (an acheiropoieton, "made without hand"). Various existing images have been claimed to ...
Bridal Veil Falls is the smallest of the three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls. It is located on the United States side in New York state. Luna Island separates it from the American Falls and Goat Island separates it from the Horseshoe Falls. Bridal Veil Falls faces to the northwest and has a crest 56 ft (17 m) wide.
Detail of Jesus's head and veil. Veiled Christ (Italian: Cristo velato) is a carved marble sculpture completed in 1753 by the Neapolitan artist Giuseppe Sanmartino.It is formed from a single block of white marble, and was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro, a prince of Sansevero, as the centerpiece of the Cappella Sansevero, in Naples, Italy.
Location Palazzo Barberini , Rome The Vestal Virgin Tuccia ( Italian : La Vestale Tuccia ) or Veiled Woman ( Italian : La Velata ) is a marble sculpture created in 1743 by Antonio Corradini , a Venetian Rococo sculptor known for his illusory depictions of female allegorical figures covered with veils that reveal the fine details of the forms ...
The veil gives the appearance of being translucent, but is carved of marble. The technique is similar to Giuseppe Sanmartino 's 1753 statue Veiled Christ in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples . The statue was transported to Newfoundland in 1856, as recorded on December 4 in the diary of Bishop John Thomas Mullock : "Received safely from Rome, a ...
The Bridal Veil Falls (French: Voile de la Mariée) is a waterfall on the island of Réunion. Located at about 500 m altitude along the mountainous rampart that separates the cirque Salazie and the plateau forest Bélouve, it falls within the territory of the commune of Salazie on the island of Réunion. A legend related to it: a father crying ...
Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, [3] was a widow from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian traditions. [4] A celebrated saint in many pious Christian countries, the 17th-century Acta Sanctorum published by the Bollandists listed her feast under July 12, [5] but the German Jesuit scholar Joseph Braun cited her commemoration in Festi Marianni on ...
A front quarter view of the sculpture. The Veiled Vestal (Italian: La vestale velata) is an 1847 sculpture by Raffaelle Monti.It was commissioned by William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire during an 1846 trip to Naples.