Pomp and propaganda
Feb 26, 2020
3 minutes
Benedetto Gennari’s spectacular Annunciation (1686) for James II’s chapel at Whitehall Palace
THE frenetic output of art after the restoration of 1660 tells us much about the courtly patronage, relationships and influences of the later Stuart age (1660–1714).
In its first survey exhibition of the period since the 1960s, Tate Britain’s ‘British Baroque: Power and Illusion’ puts art alongside furniture, silver and architectural drawings, including some items never shown in public before, to give a select and subtle—and at times dazzling—insight into a
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