The Starry Messenger

This exhibition catalogue was published to coincide with the Starry Messenger exhibition held at Compton Verney between June and September 2006.In 1610 Galileo viewed the sky through a newly invented telescope and his observations marked a major turning point in the way that we view the world. The Starry Messenger looked at artists' visions of the universe and its continuing influence on the imagination. The exhibition began with Galileo's book, Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger), and his subsequent meeting with the poet John Milton, as described in the epic poem Paradise Lost. The exhibition explored the dreams and imagination of a Western culture through the visionary paintings of William Blake, John Martin and Odilon Redon, via the utopian worlds and dilemmas posed by science fiction, to contemporary works that question man's knowledge of life on earth.

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