Manet’s ‘Olympia’ is coming to the Met ... were showered with all the honors at the Salon (Paris’s annual showcase for contemporary art) were not images of real women.

Today, the painting is celebrated for heralding the dawn of modern art. Despite its international renown, Olympia has spent the vast majority of its 160-year existence in just one city ...

Performance artist Deborah de Robertis has been arrested for indecent exposure after lying down naked in front of Édouard Manet's Olympia in Paris' Musée d'Orsay; mimicking the pose of his famed ...

After Victorine Meurent posed for Manet’s ‘Olympia,’ she took art classes and painted this ... exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon about half a dozen times, earned her living as an ...