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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“Van Gogh, Manet, and Matisse: The Art of the Flower” is on track to break attendance projections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibit was expected to draw 75,000 visitors, according to ...

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 ...

Manet and Modern Beauty is the catalogue of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Getty Museum that closed earlier this year. As the opening essay explains, the catalogue concentrates ...