# Mandylion [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN ICON PAINTER, Russian]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Egg tempera on wood, 71 x 58 cm ## Commentary Mandylion is the name given to an image of Christ, which, unlike other such images, was not formed by human hand, but miraculously created by an imprint going back to Christ Himself. The term goes back to an Arabic word, mandil or mindil, which means cloth or towel, thus indicating the material of the picture. Icons that reproduce the Mandylion show the portrait of Christ frontally and without neck or shoulders on the background of a cloth. The hair has a parting, falling to the shoulders on either side. ## Related artworks - [Exaltation of the Cross]() - [Icon of St Theodore Stratilates and St Theodore Tyron]() - [Icon of the Transfiguration]() - [Luke Paints the Icon of the Mother of God Hodegetria]() - [Resurrection of Christ and the Harrowing of Hell]() - [St Luke the Apostle and Evangelist]() - [St Nicholas the Wonder-Worker]() - [St Nicholas with Scenes from his Life]() - [St Nicholas with Scenes from His Life]() - [Synaxis of All Saints]() - [The Apostle Peter]() - [The Baptism of Christ]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()