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.

Édouard Manet's Olympia will soon make its United States debut in a new exhibition. Musée d’Orsay When Édouard Manet’s Olympia debuted in 1865, viewers at the Paris Salon were aghast.

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 ...

In Édouard Manet’s famed 1863 painting, a woman—a courtesan ... for courtesans with venereal disease. In Paris, in 1863, the year of Olympia’s creation, in fact, the syphilis epidemic ...

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 ... in front of the painting.

PARIS IN RUINS: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, by Sebastian Smee Ever since scandal erupted in 1865 over his painting “Olympia,” depicting a blasé prostitute wearing little more ...