When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.

And art is one of the methods invented by humans to record and rekindle it. Manet and Morisot were both key figures in what became the impressionist movement: Manet was the so-called father of ...

Long accustomed to impressionists’ ways of perceiving the world, we put paintings by Monet and Renoir on tea towels and ...

Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist there has been. As the reluctant father of Impressionism, and the painter of Dejeuner sur l'herbe, he can probably be ...