How tall is the man in the image on the Shroud of Turin?
Editor’s Note: I asked Isabel Piczek, noted monumental artist, theoretical physicist and Shroud historian to answer this question. Isabel’s expertise is based on her many years of experience in figurative arts and human anatomy. A: The figurative arts have, as their special subject of study, proportion, type, structure and style of a body, including bone and muscle structure. The size of a face from the top of the forehead to the bottom of the chin, the type and length of the arms, the type of the fingers, the type and structure of the torso, etc., absolutely determine the height of a man and nature shows no variations. One has to add to all these a keen sense of draftsmanship, which sees foreshortenings and how they effect the height. To my knowledge, in Shroud studies only three researchers addressed the question with solid authority: In the early 1960’s, Professor Lorenzo Ferri studied at length and in depth the question of the height of the Man of the Shroud. He spent decades with
