Spiral Theater

Angels were often beautiful or adorable, but one or two of the angels in the Church of Saint Anthony were winged skeletons, holding golden trumpets as if they might sound them at any moment.

Sculpture differed from painting. When sculptors carved the muscles and lines of the human body, they often relied on their exquisite mathematical knowledge. The greatest invention of the ancient greeks was geometry, and the perfect human statues handed down from ancient Greece embodied their perfect interpretation of geometry. They had not been based on real human models, but on their ideal of the perfect physique.

Leonardo da Vinci discovered the golden ratio through the Ten Books on Architecture, linking the biological foundations of beauty with geometric knowledge and bringing the Vitruvian Man perfectly to life beneath his marvelous brush.

Not every creature in the biological world conformed to the golden ratio. Just like human figures, not everyone matched the golden section.

During the Renaissance, besides Florence, Padua was also famous for its anatomical theater, which Gianluca had taken them to visit that morning.

Padua had a Roman theater. After all, it was an ancient city with more than two thousand years of history, though only broken walls and ruins remained.

The temporary theater had once staged plays. Later, the central stage was replaced with an anatomical table, and the stars changed from living actors to dead corpses. Some were criminals who had just been executed, while others were patients who had only recently died. The Doge's Palace also had authority in Padua, but the only people who would stop them were the Church.

Saint Anthony had once been a doctor. One day, he saw five Franciscan friars who had gone to preach in Morocco fall ill there. Moved by this, he decided to spread the faith