01-31-2023, 05:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2023, 10:04 AM by Paul Ferguson.)
Now a pizza joint, this house in Anagni near Rome is alleged to have 'alchemical' symbolism on the outside. Anyone been there? Adam?
Recently restored, and there's a book about it by Guglielmo Viti.
'According to local lore, the seemingly incomprehensible and elaborate inscriptions and frescoes are the result of von Barnekow’s hallucinations, visions and his alchemical research, which he pursued in the solitude of his Anagni residence (that he called “tribuna Albertina”) over twenty-five years. The inscriptions and frescoes should be read as a description of von Barnekow’s own transformation and alchemical journey, crowned by the apparition of the Virgin that occurred on November 27 1861. The house struck the German historian and traveler Ferdinand Gregorovius, who sketched it in 1856.'
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/barnekow-house
Recently restored, and there's a book about it by Guglielmo Viti.
'According to local lore, the seemingly incomprehensible and elaborate inscriptions and frescoes are the result of von Barnekow’s hallucinations, visions and his alchemical research, which he pursued in the solitude of his Anagni residence (that he called “tribuna Albertina”) over twenty-five years. The inscriptions and frescoes should be read as a description of von Barnekow’s own transformation and alchemical journey, crowned by the apparition of the Virgin that occurred on November 27 1861. The house struck the German historian and traveler Ferdinand Gregorovius, who sketched it in 1856.'
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/barnekow-house
