{"product_id":"heaven-on-earth-painting-and-the-life-to-come-9780500021385","title":"Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come","description":"In this latest work, respected art historian T. J. Clark sets out to investigate the different ways painting has depicted the dream of God's kingdom come: heaven descended to earth. He goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance--to Giotto in Padua, Bruegel facing the horrors of religious war, Poussin painting the Sacraments, and Veronese unfolding the human comedy, in particular his inscrutable \u003cem\u003eAllegory of Love\u003c\/em\u003e. Was it ultimately to painting's advantage that in an age of orthodoxy and enforced censorship (threats of hellfire, burnings at the stake) artists found ways reflect on the powers and limitations of religion without putting their thoughts into words? In conclusion Clark brings us into the Nuclear Age with Picasso's \u003cem\u003eFall of Icarus\u003c\/em\u003e, made for UNESCO in 1958, which already seems to signal, or even prescribe, an age when all futures are dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thames \u0026amp; Hudson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780500021385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2018 pg. 62\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"T. J. Clark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45211579023541,"sku":"9780500021385","price":29.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_34776ba1-688c-4562-8a73-9795a725bd75.jpg?v=1742913326","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/heaven-on-earth-painting-and-the-life-to-come-9780500021385","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}