Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come

Preeminent art historian T. J. Clark explores how painters since the Middle Ages have portrayed the divine 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 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 p...