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.

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” (1863) will be shown in the US for the first time as part of a Met exhibition focused on the joint careers of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas.

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

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 ...

How dare Manet present such a woman (flanked by her Black servant and cat) so brazenly staring out at the audience? “Olympia,” on loan from the Musée d’Orsay, is the centerpiece of “ Manet/Degas,” on ...

Manet: A tale of two cats With the satanic black feline in his painting 'Olympia', Manet scandalised 19th-century Paris – but, as a new Royal Academy exhibition reveals, his pet cat Zizi also ...

At the Gardner this fall, Manet and family The new show takes an intimate, biographical approach to the ‘father of Modern art,’ and the people he painted.

‘I wanted to reclaim the art of the nude’: Renee Saliba on Manet’s ‘outrageous’ painting Olympia No one entity can control what a woman is. And just as Manet broke through a mould set ...

The model for the prostitute in “Olympia” was Victorine-Louise Meurent, a painter who started modeling for artists in the studio of Thomas Couture, Manet’s teacher, when she was 16 years old.