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Artist: Jean-François Millet
Millet's L'Angélus shows two potato diggers who stop work in an empty plain to pray the Angelus. This docent-led visit explains the subject, the curatorial reading of childhood memory rather than religious exaltation, and the painting's transformation into a modern icon.
Artist: Jean-François Millet
Millet's The Angelus shows two peasant workers standing in a field at dusk, their heads bowed as the bell for the Angelus prayer rings across the land. The painting turns a daily moment of devotion into an image of rural labour and faith.
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