HEAVEN ON EARTH

In this latest work, respected art historian T. J. Clark sets out to investigate the different ways painting has depicted the dream of Gods kingdom come: heaven descended to earth. He goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissanceto Giotto in Padua, Bruegel f acing the horrors of religious war, Poussin painting the Sacraments, and Veronese unfolding the human comedy, in particular his insc rutable Allegory of Love. Was it ultimately to paintings advantage that in an age of orthodoxy and enforced censorship (threats of hellfire, bur...[Read more]