Addresses questions such as: Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again? What is it we are looking for? And how does our understanding of an image change over time?
One of the world’s most respected writers on art investigates the very different ways painting has given form to the afterlife.
A superbly written and tightly argued appraisal of the political and religious ramifications of one of the fundamental topics in the history of art – the artistic encounter with the transcendent.