What Heaven Looks Like: Comments on a Strange Wordless Book

An unknown masterpiece of visionary art-as daring as Blake or Goya, but utterly different-reproduced in full color, with a commentary by one of our most original art historians

Somewhere in Europe-we don't know where-around 1700. An artist is staring at something on the floor next to her worktable. It's just a log from the woodpile, stood on end. The soft, damp bark; the gently raised growth rings; the dark radial cracks-nothing could be more ordinary. But as the artist looks, and looks, col...