Manet\’s Olympia: The 1865 Scandal That Exposed Every Power Structure in Art
In 1865, \u00c9douard Manet hung a painting at the Paris Salon that made the most powerful people in France look […]
Édouard Manet
May 14, 1863: The Salon des Refusés Opened — and Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe Made the Nude Modern Whether Paris Liked It or Not
On May 14, 1863, Emperor Napoleon III did something no French sovereign had done before: he opened a gallery of