By Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
There is an airy magic to status underneath a dome, neck craned, taking a look up at a imaginative and prescient of the heavens created by way of a few long-ago determine of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the ability of the dome turns out transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson's magnificently kaleidoscopic photos of dome interiors trap this evanescent drama, and make Visions of Heaven some of the most spectacularly attractive books we have now ever produced. touring from Italy to Spain, Turkey, England, Germany, and Russia, between different international locations, and photographing church buildings, palaces, mosques, and synagogues from the second one to the early 20th century, Stephenson's paintings quantities to a veritable typology of the cupola. His photographs current advanced geometrical buildings, wealthy stucco undefined, and problematic work as they've got by no means been obvious prior to. Brilliantly calibrated exposures display info and colours that will another way stay hidden in those dimly lit areas. Visions of Heaven exhibits greater than a hundred and twenty photos, together with the Roman Pantheon, the Byzantine church buildings of Turkey, the good domes of the Renaissance, the ornamental cupolas of the Baroque and the Rococo a while, and a nineteenth-century synagogue in Hungary.
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