Dan Scavone on "The Turin Shroud: In Whose Image?"
Historian Dan Scavone from a review of Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince, The Turin Shroud: In Whose Image? (New York, Harper Collins, 1994):
[A]n illustration of the burial of Jesus in the Hungarian Pray manuscript, firmly dated in the early 1190s, depicts him with hands folded exactly as on the Turin Shroud; on the same page a drawing of the Resurrection clearly bears a configuration of four tiny circles which perfectly reproduce four apparent "poker holes" on the Turin Shroud. A drawing of the Shroud from the year 1516 (prior to the well documented fire of 1532 which caused the major burn marks still visible on the Shroud) in Lierre, Belgium also bears this very configuration. This configuration of four marks, undoubtedly inspired by the Shroud in 1190 is alone sufficient to negate the hypothesis of this book. To summarize: First, the authors ask their readers to believe that because Leonardo was genius enough to have made a primitive camera, ergo he did do it. He then created the Shroud. But he could not say he had done it for certain undocumented reasons. Thus the reasons had to be contrived by the authors. Picknett, a spiritualist, produced a correspondent named "Giovanni," who first put her on to her ideas. This does not suffice as academically acceptable documentation.