A two-half meter peephole of a medieval video camera?
The museum says that this is the same as this:
That is, Custodian, she is a monstration, she is a guest, she is a tabernacle. Here are the museum plaques of both (both from the same Machado de Castro museum in Coimbra):
And what, the design is similar, in principle. All in large precious crystals and a lens in the middle:
Promotional video:
Let's go back to our giant. Unknown artist, first half of the 18th century. More than 200 kg of silver, 2.2 meters by 1.6 meters, baroque. From here. And if this is actually a tabernacle, then, according to the canon, they stuffed it with bones. How many bones had to be collected …
This is followed by photos from different angles of the museum.
Well, a fish eye in silver, and only …
The angel is human-sized.
Guys, how many museums I go, I've never seen such a diva in my life! Where and why was it mounted, I wonder, such a huge one ???
In the very center, some kind of gap, as for a key, is guessed behind the lens …
How was it used ??? Where was it mounted ???
Maybe into one of these sockets in temples:
(Monastery of Santa Clara in Coimbra)?
Well, they did it. And what's next?
Information on its use - zero. Neither Russian nor Portuguese internet.
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An ordinary eye, like ours, but not carbon biology. You can check by touch.
The same vitreous inside. If you freeze it, then there will be ice. If the biology is silicon, then there will be a crystal like a diamond.
It's no secret that the statues used to have "eyes", even those on Fr. Easter. But people knocked out the glitter and even took the eye from the pyramids. As a result, the statues have become blinded and have such hollows in their eye sockets where diamonds used to be. You can also take out your own eye with a spoon, getting an empty eye socket. Or a sharp blow to the back of the head is enough and the eyes fall out and hang on the nerves. The case is not that rare. You can pick it out with your fingers.
Crows again like to peck out their eyes, so people did no better with the frozen gods.