Chapter 795 Spiral Theater

The appearance of angels is often beautiful or cute, but there are one or two angels in San Antonio Church, which are winged skeletons, holding golden trumpets in their hands, as if they will blow at any time.

Unlike sculpture and painting, sculptors often rely on their superb mathematical knowledge when sculpting the muscles and lines of the human body. The greatest invention of the ancient Greeks is their geometry. The perfect human statues handed down from ancient Greece reflect the perfect interpretation of geometry by the ancient Greeks. It is not derived from real mannequins, but theirs. Ideal body.

Leonardo da Vinci discovered the golden ratio through the "Ten Commandments of Architecture", linking the biological basis of beauty with the knowledge of geometry, so that "Vitruvian Man" can be perfectly presented under his wonderful pen.

Not all creatures in the biological world conform to the golden ratio, just like the figure of a person, not everyone conforms to the golden ratio.

During the Renaissance, apart from Florence, Padua was also a famous anatomical theater, which Gianluca took them to visit in the morning.

There is a Roman theater in Padua. After all, it is an old city with a history of more than two thousand years, but there are only some ruins left.

The temporary theater used to be used for drama performances. Later, the central stage was replaced by an anatomy table. The stars changed from living actors to dead bodies. Some of them were prisoners who had just been executed, and some were patients who had just died. There are, but the only thing that will stop them is the Church.

San Antonio used to be a doctor. One day he saw five Franciscan monks who were missionary in Morocco get sick there. He felt it and decided to preach in the way of healing and saving lives. In the end, he himself got sick in Morocco and returned to Morocco. Padua.

The burial custom of Christian belief requires a complete body. When a devout Christian dies, he will be buried in a shroud and will not be cremated. The Catholic Church also absolutely prohibited "the mutilation of corpses" in medieval Europe. In the Middle Ages, when a person was condemned by the church as a heretic, he would be punished with a mutilated corpse, which included punishments such as deliberately cutting off his head and burning the heretic after his death. Therefore, hanging was used to protect the integrity of the corpse. The soul is closely related to his body, and cutting off his body means cutting off his soul.

Even a sinner is eligible to go to heaven as long as he repents seriously, dissecting his body is depriving him of the qualification to go to heaven, so every autopsy is carried out in secret to prevent people from the church from coming in to make trouble.

The temporary theater has 7 floors, the bottom floor is the "stage", and the upper six floors of stands can accommodate more than 200 students. Its design should be inspired by Roman amphitheatres. The bottom circle is big.

Orange candlelight is the only light source. Even in broad daylight, they will not open windows for light. Under the dim light, there are pairs of eyes that glow because of seeking knowledge.

A line of Latin is carved on the mahogany railing at the main entrance: Here the dead are happy to help the living.

Wanting to see autopsies is not free. The person who invented this "business" was a 23-year-old young man, Andrews Vesalius, and many of those so-called "students" were older than his professor.

Like all surgeons, he thought he was a god, arrogant and talented, and he had no respect for those corpses. Autopsies are usually carried out in winter, when the temperature is low in winter, the corpses will be "fresh".

Not everyone comes here for knowledge. Every time he wants to do an autopsy, doctors, tourists, rich and poor in half of Padua will go to see it. The stands are full of people, and some people even want to Take a closer look at the one that fell from the stands.

The common way of medical education in Europe at that time was that the professor would read from Galen’s book that the liver has three lobules, and then show a liver to the students, and the students nodded accordingly, even though the liver did not have three lobules at all.

In Padua, students can talk about what they see. There are differences between people. Some people have a heart on the right side, and not everyone's body conforms to the golden ratio.

The bastard made money from the last secret of the dead, of course he was targeted, but the university protected him, so the artists in Padua had the means to create with the same anatomical precision as Florence.

The Lido also has an dissecting table, but it is for performances. It is the method of Andrews Vesalius. Not all of the corpses are prisoners and patients, and some of them are of unknown origin, but no one cared at the time. It is a scarce resource, and there are only a few places, and it is precisely because Andrews Vesalius' theater attracts many students to study.

The public execution of the death penalty will not cause a deterrent effect. Instead, people will think it is a kind of entertainment, but it is not interesting to watch too many hangings. "Blood" is what people want to see.

Churches often have a well of martyrs, which churches and lower church institutions do not have.

In the New Testament "Holy Gospel Ihoan Proclaimed" 4:5-6, there is a city in Samaria called Sihar, which is close to the field of Jacob. When Jesus and his disciples left Judea for Galilee On his way, Aah passed through Sihar, and sat by the well, weary from the journey, while his disciples went into the city to buy food. It was at this well that Jesus had the famous "Fountain of Eternal Life" dialogue with the Samaritan woman drawing water.

Although this Samaritan woman was told by Jesus that she had a sinful and unclean life. However, in the tradition of Orthodox Christianity, she was honored as a saint because she recognized the Lord, spread the news of Jesus’ arrival in the city, and testified for his identity as the Son of God, prompting the Samaritans to continuously convert. Known as "equal to the apostles", she accepted the Christian name "Fortini" after her baptism and was called "Saint Fortini". She even eventually caught the attention of the Roman Emperor Nero, was brought before him, questioned and tortured, and eventually she was thrown into a dry well to die as a martyr saint.

The ascetics performed church ceremonies in front of the well, which may be to make holy water, or it may be the implement of the mystery of holy baptism. During the Third Crusade, Saladin took those elegant The well of Gobo and the well of the martyrs in the sanctuary were destroyed one after another.

There is also the Well of the Martyrs in the Church of San Antonio. This "church" violated the regulations from all angles, but the church turned a blind eye to it, all because San Antonio seemed to have some abilities different from ordinary doctors.

After arriving at the empty music booth, Severus took the violin out of its case in the dark shade.

There is a kind of rational madman who looks normal at ordinary times but is terrible when mad, and Severus Snape is such a person.

Tartini once told others such a story, one night he had a dream, dreamed of a devil, and heard the devil play a wonderful sonata, which fascinated him. After he woke up, he recorded the song.

Jesus’ father, Joseph, also had a dream. Before getting married, Joseph found that his fiancée, Mary, was showing signs of pregnancy. When he was in a difficult situation, the angel Gabriel reported to him the mystery of Jesus’ birth, so Joseph was brave. Accept the mission given by God.

Maybe the gods in the sky are like those in the spiral theater who stretch their heads and watch humans dissect people, watching what is happening on the ground.

However, this music booth blocks the view from the top to the bottom and can only be seen by standing on the ground.

"Can you play the violin?" Pomona asked, she could hear the violin rustling.

"No." Severus said, but he still put the violin under his chin in a dignified manner, holding the bow and asked, "What song do you want to hear?"

"You don't know how to play and ask me what song I listen to?"

"Watch out for my soul, if my soul is also sucked by this harp, you will become a widow." He bared his yellow teeth and said with a smile.

She didn't speak.

She couldn't say don't tease Muggles and let a Muggle play instead.

"Wish me luck, dear." He said softly, and like a performer, he put his bow on the Guarneri violin. The Greek abbreviation JHS on the violin really means "Jesus can save you" ?

With the first sharp sound like a witch's wail, the performance of "Demon" began.

Although she was the only audience at the scene, someone in the church next door must have heard the voice.

Do those people listen to the trumpet of the skeletal angel, or the trill of the devil?