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Pyramids of piffle: Tate Britain’s British Baroque reviewed

15 February 2020

9:00 AM

15 February 2020

9:00 AM

British Baroque: Power and Illusion

Tate Britain, until 19 April

British Baroque: it was never going to fly. Les rosbifs emulating the splendour of le Roi Soleil? Pas possible. Still, we had a go and the evidence is assembled in British Baroque: Power and Illusion, Tate Britain’s survey of the art of the Stuart court from the restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714.

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