Michael Prodger is a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham and art critic for the New Statesman

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The grand gestures hiding in Parisian churches

Religious art didn’t die out in the 18th century – Parisian churches are full of large-scale baroque paintings

16 Jun 2017

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