Imagining Heaven: Depictions of the Afterlife in World Art Across the Millennia

Over the centuries, humans have conjured images--the stuff of dreams, convictions, and ardent desire--to describe our afterlife. The vision of heaven can appear as simple as a place among the stars or as complex as a universe filled with a multitude of busy souls.

Positioned at the intersection of art, religion, and culture, this book sheds new light on human creativity in its portrayal of the afterlife.

Beginning with prehistoric burial objects that help with one's heavenly needs, it trav...