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 ...

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 ...

“Olympia,” on loan from the Musée d’Orsay, is the centerpiece of “Manet/Degas,” on view through Jan. 7, 2024. It’s perhaps the best reason and one of the only reasons to see the show, which features ...

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.

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.

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: A Model Family,” opening at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Oct. 10, arrives in the year that marks the 150th anniversary of the first-ever Impressionist exhibition, held in ...