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 ...

Édouard Manet was succumbing to the ordeal of late-stage syphilis when he painted some of the freshest, most affecting flower paintings in the history of art. Against dark backgrounds, brush strokes ...

French Impressionist painter ?douard Manet (1832?1883) was an artist ahead of his time. His works almost always sparked controversy and met with misunderstanding. However, even those who disliked ...

Edouard Manet’s late career works were dismissed for decades as mere confections, often dashed-off paintings of fruit and flowers and, especially, fashionable Parisian women, mere “feminized” shadows ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Édouard Manet was succumbing to the ordeal of late-stage syphilis when he painted some of the freshest, most affecting flower paintings in the history of art. Against dark backgrounds, ...

"Jeanne (Spring)" (1881) Édouard Manet Oil on canvas, 29 1/8 in. x 20 ¼ in. Fine, dainty brushstrokes adorn the floral dress worn by Parisian actress Jeanne DeMarsy. The smooth skin of her pale face ...

Manet’s ‘Olympia’ is coming to the Met as part of its ‘Manet/Degas’ exhibition “Olympia” — the Mona Lisa of modern art — has come to America for the first time. Édouard Manet began painting his ...

In his last years, as he was dying of complications from syphilis, artist Édouard Manet was in agonizing pain — but you'd never know it from... In his last years, as he was dying of complications from ...