Abstract

The all-embracive frescoes in the crypt of Anagni Cathedral required viewers to practice multisensory forms of beholding that combined bodily movements with sight, memory, and intellect. The crypt’s viewing conditions generated distinct relationships of interdependency between paintings and beholders, which were thematically reflected in the mural’s complex visual program, whose representations of medical, astrological, and cosmological theory stressed the connectedness of all things. The monument’s thematic focus and spectatorial demands worked jointly to stimulate viewers to reflect on humankind’s material and temporal entanglement vis-à-vis the compensatory potential of astrology and medicine.

摘要

阿纳格尼大教堂地下室的壁画全是壁画，要求观看者练习将身体动作与视觉，记忆和智力结合在一起的多种感觉形式的观察。隐窝的观看条件在绘画和情人之间产生了明显的相互依存关系，这在壁画的复杂视觉程序中得到了主题上的反映，该​​程序以医学，占星术和宇宙学理论为代表，强调了万物之间的联系。纪念碑的主题重点和观赏性要求共同发挥作用，以激发观看者对占星术和医学补偿潜力的人类的物质和时间纠缠进行反思。