Greatest Paintings: The French Revolution - Millet's Angelus
This episode of The Rest Is History explores Jean-François Millet’s 1859 painting The Angelus, a deceptively simple image of rural prayer that carries deep political and religious resonance in post-revolutionary France. Hosts Tom Holland and Laura Cumming unpack how the painting becam
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