The Holy Face of Lucca is an eight-foot-tall (2.4 m), ancient wooden carving of Jesus crucified in the cathedral of San Martino, Lucca, Italy. Medieval legends state that it was sculpted by Nicodemus who assisted St. Joseph of Arimathea in placing Christ in his tomb after the crucifixion. The same legends placed its miraculous arrival in Lucca to AD 782.
The Volto Santo of Lucca
The legend of the fiddler in a Parisian miniature of 1400–1420
The Legend of the Holy Face, Die Bildnus zu Luca, and the fiddler. Sixteenth-century woodcut by Hans Burgkmair
Fresco of the Translation of the Holy Face, San Frediano, Lucca
Lucca Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours in Lucca, Italy. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Lucca. Construction was begun in 1063 by Bishop Anselm.
Façade and bell tower of Lucca Cathedral
Shrine of the Sacred Face of Lucca
Volto Santo
Saint Martin and the beggar, ca 1200