In the Public Eye: Viewing Monumental Funerary Architecture and Cults of Personality in Quattrocento Italy

我在剑桥大学（University of Cambridge）的博士研究重点是，在四世纪意大利的纪念性坟墓中，人们对能见度的预期是人格崇拜和/或崇拜的下一步。我的重点是纪念那些具有强烈公共性质或符合某种公共利益的人的案例。在我博士项目的四个主要章节中，我探索了一些案例研究，这些案例研究说明了在教堂的空间性中，一个人的纪念碑的可见性——无论是永久性的还是短暂的——是为了使其适合特定的环境而形成的。因此，我的博士项目探讨了短暂和永久的视觉性对15世纪意大利葬礼纪念碑和纪念活动的重要性。通过重建一些纪念碑的原始位置，他们的葬礼仪式，并通过与相关书面资料的密切比较，我探索了葬礼纪念碑是如何在观众（缺乏）访问纪念碑本身的预期中构思的，以便传达更深层次的纪念和个性信息。

My doctoral research at the University of Cambridge focuses on the ways in which visibility was anticipated in monumental tombs in Quattrocento Italy as a next step to cults of personality and/or veneration. I focus on the cases of persons whose commemoration had a strongly public character or served a certain public interest. In the four main chapters of my doctoral project, I explore case studies which illustrate the various ways in which the visibility of a person's monument within the spatiality of a church - whether permanent or ephemeral - was shaped in order to make it fit within a particular context. My doctoral project therefore explores the importance of ephemeral and permanent visuality to funerary monuments and commemoration in fifteenth-century Italy. By reconstructing the original locations of some monuments, their funerary rites and through the close comparison with associated written sources, I explore how the funerary monument was conceived in anticipation of the viewer's (lack of) access to the monument itself in order to convey deeper messages of commemoration and personality.