IMAGING HEAVEN. THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ILLUSION

Imaging Heaven is a visual narrative of frescoed church ceilings, photographed across Italy and Catholic Europe. Moving from the Pro to-Renaissance to the Baroque, the book follows painters as they confront a fundamental problem: how to make the unseen realm of heaven perceptible amid profound shifts in cosmology, theology, and science. Guided by threads of light, gesture, and illusion, the pho tographs reveal how painters moved from shadowless gold grounds rooted in Byzantine techniques to radiant, sophisticated illumination, turned ...[Read more]