In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a symbol of hope. A brilliant setting sun illuminates a field as a farmer ...

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Jean-François Millet, L’Angélus, 1857-1859. Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 66 cm. Courtesy the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, RF 1877 Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at ...

"The case of Jean-François Millet's 1859 painting 'The Angelus' is one of the strangest in all art," said Laura Cumming in The Observer. Depicting two peasants pausing work in a field, called to ...