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There have been some suggestions that this could be a Middle Ages fake done using something like a pinhole camera to project an image onto the cloth and a chemical process would have then fixed it. Some have even gone as far as saying it may have been done by Da Vinci and that's been pushed further to hypothesise that the model for the image was Leonardo himself. It all gets increasingly unlikely but whether it is a projection or painting, as you say, it doesn't look like a cloth wrapped around a body and flattened out, which would distort the image that we see. I suspect someone like Leonardo Da Vinci would have figured that one out.
So even the theories of it being a fake manage to be intriguing!