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 ...

For almost as long as artists have been painting floral still lifes, the subject has been doubted or belittled when it hasn’t been dismissed. Even the great Dutch flower paintings of the early 1600s ...

In the final months of his life, painter Edouard Manet executed a series of 16 small flower pictures based on bouquets given to him by friends. Though the paintings showed no loss of technical command ...

The VMFA’s newest exhibit appreciates the beauty — and explores the deeper meaning — of floral still-life paintings. “Van Gogh, Manet, and Matisse: The Art of the Flower” opens Saturday at the ...

Edouard Manet’s imposing 1882 painting of a winsome, weary barmaid at the Folies-Bergère has cast a long shadow across the final years of the artist’s life. Manet died the next year, at age 51, but ...

He's one of those painters considered so influential, people don't even bother with his first name. Looking at his work now, it's hard to imagine that Edouard Manet was ever regarded as revolutionary, ...

Édouard Manet is best known for his realistic paintings of Parisian life, but this month the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston delves into the artist's lesser-known medium—his prints and drawings—in Manet ...

Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was being ...

A fascinating exhibition at San Francisco's Legion of Honor, the first of its kind, takes a close look at Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, revealing how the major 19 th century French painters knew ...