# Heavenly Sight and the Nature of Seeing-In **Opening (not a real abstract):** Richard Wollheim famously understands pictures to be distinct from other kinds of representation in virtue of eliciting a special kind of experience: seeing-in. What a picture depicts is determined in large part by what appropriate observers can see in it. Many agree that pictures often evoke experiences of seeing something in a marked surface, even if they do not assign seeing-in such a central place in their theories of depiction or characterize it in exactly the way Wollheim does. This article proposes a new way to understand seeing-in that is motivated by a curious Renaissance discussion of vision after death: heavenly sight.1 The first section introduces seeing-in as Wollheim understands it, while the second section introduces heavenly sight. Heavenly sight is impossible, and it might seem unimaginable were