Imaging Heaven

Arthur Becker’s formal exploration of the arts began at Bennington College in 1972, where he earned a degree in ceramics and photography, fostering his captivation of antiquity. Taking a hiatus from the art world to traverse into meditation, architecture practices, business school, and serving as CEO of two technology companies, Becker resumed his photographic work in the late 1990s. Brian Kish is an Italian architecture and design expert specialising in production from the High Renaissance and 20th century. He is the curator of the first US exhibition on Gio Ponti: A Metaphysical World (Queens Museum of Art, NY, 2001) and a contributor to Entryways of Milan (Taschen, 2017), Gio Ponti Archi-Designer (M.A.D. Paris, 2018, and Gio Ponti (Taschen, 2021). Dan Sherer is a professor of architectural history and theory at Princeton School of Architecture. He received his PhD from the Harvard University Department of the History of Art and Architecture in 2000 and his BA from Yale University in 1985. He has previously taught at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Yale, University of Venice, and others on the interaction of architecture, art, and design across various stylistic eras, including Italian Modernism, Italian Renaissance, and Baroque architecture. He has been published in numerous European and American journals as well as curated exhibitions related to these research interests. Martin Kemp was appointed as the Professor of the History of Art Department at the University of Oxford in 1995. As the leading Leonardo da Vinci scholar, Kemp’s work has stressed the work of the artist as a modeller and empirical investigator of the world. Professor Kemp has been Emeritus Professor of the History of Art since 2008.