Hughes, Robert — Heaven and Hell in Western Art

New York, Stein and Day, 1968. Hardcover. Light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine; black DJ with color illustration and white lettering; 288 pp.; richly illustrated. "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.." -- DJ. VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/Good+ (Dj is lightly edgeworn, scuffed, smudged with chipped edges.).