Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come

by T.J. Clark

Book Overview

In this latest work, now available in paperback, respected art historian T.J. Clark sets out to investigate the different ways painters have depicted the dream of God's kingdom come: heaven descended to earth.

Clark goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance--to Giotto in Padua; Pieter Bruegel facing the horrors of religious war; Nicolas Poussin painting the Sacraments; and Paolo Veronese unfolding the human comedy, in particular his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500295549
• ISBN13: 9780500295540
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"