The veil of St. Veronica (Vera Icon).

Wilhelm Kalteysen's The Veil of Saint Veronica (Vera Icon), painted around 1450 and now in the National Museum in Wrocław, depicts the miraculous image of Christ's face said to have been imprinted on a cloth when a woman named Veronica wiped his face during the carrying of the cross to Calvary. The Vera Icon — meaning 'true image' — was one of the most theologically charged objects in medieval Christianity, debated as a possible example of an image not made by human hands (acheiropoieton). The National Museum in Wrocław preserves this as evidence of German late Gothic painting's transmission into Silesia.

Tempera on panel. The composition typically shows two angels holding the white cloth with Christ's face imprinted upon it — a serene, idealized visage framed by the cloth's edges. The face of the Vera Icon is rendered with particular care, as it was the devotional focus of the image.