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Image as Rend 197Image not availableFIG 8 Parmigianino, Veronica Between Saints Peter and Paul, c. 1524–27.Drawing on paper. Florence, Uffizi.the way it detours around conventional pictorial practice—evokes thepious recipes that must have presided over the confection of many‘‘Holy Shrouds’’ medieval and modern. 128 It was very exactly a questionof turning away from mimetic and ‘‘artistic’’ techniques to theend of transposing the gesture of imitation to the pious register ofprocess, of contact, of the achiropoïèse: in sum, it was a question ofrealizing—of ‘‘ficting’’ and in a sense faking—a veritable ‘‘image notmade by human hand.’’ Ugo da Carpi thought he was doing good, inthe religious sense of a pious act, by turning away here from theaesthetic ideology of his time and from the technique of his peers—inshort, by refusing the hand as ‘‘invention,’’ in other words, disegno.We note just the same that his quality as engraver, which he himself