Yet the painting’s trans-Atlantic voyage is so much more than a one-off masterpiece loan. “Olympia” is central to the account of “Manet/Degas,” which maps how two very different artists ...

Olympia, Edouard Manet, 1863-65, oil on canvas, Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France. Giraudon/Art Resource, NY. Edouard Manet's Olympia 1865. When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of ...

Art History What Makes ‘Olympia’ So Astoundingly Modern? Here Are 3 Things That Help Unlock Manet’s Enigmatic Canvas. Historians have argued that the scandalous 1863 painting of a courtesan ...

Today, Meurent is known to students all over the world not as a painter but as the woman who posed for the most famous nude of the 19th century: Manet’s “Olympia.” That painting presented ...

While Olympia is based on Titian’s 1538 painting Venus of Urbino, which depicts a nude woman reclining on a bed, it’s no imitation. Venus is filled with symbols of marriage and fidelity and is ...

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 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.