In 1865, Edouard Manet’s painting “Olympia” debuted in the Paris Salon, changing the art world forever. Controlled by the French Academy of Fine Arts, the annual Salon was the most important ...

I t’s not often that a naked woman holds all the power, but when you look at Edouard Manet’s famous painting Olympia, it seems his model does exactly that. As she reclines on a chaise, wearing ...

One of the inspirations for the cover was the 19th century painting ‘Olympia’ by Edouard Manet – a kind of early pin-up picture, and in a sense a forerunner of some 20th Century Pop Art ...

Edouard Manet's 1868 Olympia painting is being loaned, from the Orsay museum in Paris, to Italy for an exhibition at the Doges' Palace in Venice.