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Please view the photographs for conditions. Hardback. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. A Good copy in a Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 288 pages. The notable art critic examines the themes of heaven and hell in western art. “For more than fifteen hundred years the prospect of Heaven or Hell was the chief religious preoccupation in most of Europe. From the dawn of Christianity to the mid-nineteenth century, these two poles of a system of moral organization gave to Western art a subject matter to release the imagination.The themes of heaven and hell have inspired some of the greatest artists of the Western world. Here their work is compared, contrasted, and skillfully juxtaposed.”