What if you spoke the language of heaven?

The Luminous Codex | The 28 Keys of Heaven

The Luminous Codex is the complete portfolio of Romano Fonseca’s 28-letter transposition of The Alphabet of Angels assembled by The Curators in an edition of five. The Luminous Codex provides the basis for translating any text into color.

Is color the alphabet of angels?

Romano Fonseca | The Alphabet of Angels

This highly unusual collection of prints is based on a translation of the enigmatic text by Romano Fonseca, The Alphabet of the Angels, in the late 19th century. The document was discovered in the crypt of the Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista in Praiano by two brothers, Florianto and Italo Ravello, in the early 1950s. Fonseca’s text outlines what he claimed was the language of heaven, which he transposed meticulously into a color version of the modern Roman alphabet using a single cube to represent each colored letter.

The Kirlian Lozenges

Semyon Kirlian’s 20th century visualization of Romano Fonseca’s The Alphabet of Angels

The Kirlian Lozenges is an interpretation by the Russian photographer, Semyon Kirlian, of the 28 letters from Romano Fonseca’s 19th century translation of The Alphabet of Angels. This unusual collection of visualizations is alleged to have been produced in secret in 1964 during a correspondence between Kirlian and the Calvino brothers during the height of the Cold War. The collection of Fonseca’s original manuscripts has been meticulously transposed from its original context and updated by the Curators in limited editions.

“… blues and pinks, a morning sky scattered … cumulous, nimbus, stratus and cirrus folding over and under and inside one another in a swirling dance of color.”

— Romano Fonseca, from The Alphabet of Angels, 1892