When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon ... Taking Titian's Venus of Urbino as his model, Manet creates a work he thinks will grant him a place in the pantheon of great artists.

In 1873 when this painting was created by the Realist master Édouard Manet, the Gare Saint–Lazare was the largest and busiest train station in Paris.

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

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But how do Manet’s specific dramas inflect the work? Since “Olympia,” his boundary-smashing depiction of a nude courtesan in regal repose debuted at the Paris salon in 1865, most of the talk ...

drawings and paintings from artists as diverse as Andy Warhol and 19th Century modernist Edouard Manet, after making a "compelling" application to the British Museum. The museum said the works ...

A similar dynamic is at play in the series of portraits Édouard Manet painted of Berthe Morisot ... She was already an ...

We have selected works ranging from 1913-14 up to the year ... and painters have always had to measure themselves against it—Edouard Manet once called it “the touchstone of painting.” ...

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Two surveys of hometown artists — one at the Brooklyn Museum, another of those it snubbed — serve as a meditation on ...

Sebastian Smee delivered the Art History keynote at the Boston Book Festival, speaking on impressionism and its broader ...