In this latest work, now available in paperback, respected art historian T.
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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 to reflect on the powers and limitations of religion without putting their thoughts into words? Clark takes the reader on a journey starting in the Middle Ages to the nuclear age with Pablo Picasso\'s Fall of Icarus , made for UNESCO in 1958, where Picasso powerfully pictures art in an age when all futures are dead..
Clark goes back to the late Middle Ages and Renaissance--to Giotto in Padua
Pieter Bruegel facing the horrors of religious war
Nicolas Poussin painting the Sacraments; and Paolo Veronese unfolding the human comedy, in particular his inscrutable Allegory of Love .
Clark sets out to investigate the different ways painters have depicted the dream of God\'s kingdom come: Heaven descended to earth.
In this latest work, now available in paperback, respected art historian T.
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