ART REVIEW Manet, Degas, and the nude that changed everything A major new show at the Met brings ‘Olympia’ to the US for the first time and with it a story of two artists’ catalytic friendship.

A major art historical work, “Olympia” was inspired by Titian’s famous “Venus of Urbino” (1534). Manet’s titular subject was a sex worker, a fact that predictably scandalized the ...

Edouard Manet's Olympia 1865. When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain.

Manet’s model for Olympia would have appreciated Saliba’s efforts to expand opportunities for female artists. She was Victorine Meurent, an artist in her own right, ...

ONE CAN IMAGINE the outrage provoked by “Olympia,” by Edouard Manet (1832-1883), when the painting appeared at the Paris Salon, in 1865. Even today, his frankly sexual nude is audacious.

The most famous painting in the Musée d’Orsay — and probably the second-most famous painting in Paris after the “Mona Lisa” — is Édouard Manet’s “Olympia.” What does this 1863 ...

Not long after Manet finished his equally provocative "Olympia," he did something that changed the course of European art. During the summer of 1864, he went to the beach.

Olympia’s figure also reminded me a bit of the West’s Japonisme craze – in fact, if you look at some of the portraiture coming out of modern-day Japan from artists such as Ikenaga Yasunari, you’ll ...

Manet is my artistic lodestar, the man who reminds me that great works of art always seduce both the mind and the eye at once. ... Three years later, in 1865, she appears in “Olympia, ...