The perizoma is the type of loincloth worn by Christ on the Cross in countless depictions. Its imagery was codified by theology, influenced by civil fashion or invented from scratch by artists, who have come up with endless variations. It is therefore a significant yardstick of how Western attitudes evolved towards the representation of the body of Christ, human and divine at the same time. Yet it is a "blind spot" in art history, overlooked compared to other attributes of the Passion. Jacqueline Salmon took photographs and collected pictures before classifying them by type of drapery to create a dizzying documentation on the perizoma crossing ten centuries of painting, sculpture, drawing and engraving, guided only by her eye. Framing and composition were her main analytical tools and confer a new status on photographs of art works, no longer considered a tool of reproduction, but a medium of interpretation.