Explore the cloth
This is the whole Shroud, front and back image, head to head. Drag to move, scroll or pinch to zoom. Switch to the negative to see what Secondo Pia saw in 1898. The numbered marks explain what you are looking at.
Drag to move. Scroll or pinch to zoom. Press N for negative.
The image in 3D
When you turn the brightness of a normal photograph into height, you get a distorted mess: the nose sinks, the shadows rise, the background bulges. When you do the same with the Shroud, you get a coherent face and body. Compare them yourself. Both views below use exactly the same method.
Fair warning: our 3D views are a simple re-creation of the VP-8 idea, smoothed for the web. They show the principle. They are not a scientific measurement.
About these photographs
The full-cloth images here are public domain photographs. The finest photographs of the Shroud, taken by Vernon Miller and Barrie Schwortz for the 1978 scientific team, and the very high resolution images from 2002 and 2008, are protected by copyright. You can see many of them at shroud.com and shroudphotos.com. We are asking for permission to show them here.