He was misunderstood, then adored, then vilified. Who was he really?

We will uncover the relationship between Delacroix’s paintings and Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as well as examining realism - from Jean-François Millet’s take on rural life, to Gustave Courbet and Honoré de ...

Edgar Degas's 1876 painting ‘L’Absinthe’ also added to the drink’s myth, while writers including Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, and Oscar Wilde all opined on it in their works.

Some were rather peculiar characters. Like the bushy French novelist Emile Zola, who had increasingly shifted over to the ‘Rive Droite’. He was an awkward man with a resting bitch face that clearly ...

She was the daughter of a train driver. Her grandmother was a prostitute. And although she was 21 years younger, Andrée Godard became Andrew's mistress - stealing all his money.

Edouard Manet, Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, 1865 A true “student” of Manet might, then, expand upon this element of his work by experimenting with new and fresh ways to express “real” subjects in a ...

As well as Van Gogh, artists Edouard Manet and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and writers Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Baudelaire and Emile Zola were all knocking back the ...

Edouard Manet Young Man with Cherries 1858 Oysters 1862 Portrait of Emile Zola 1868 Violets and Fan 1872 Still Life with Melon 1866 Moss Roses in a Vase 1882 Manet's Still Lifes by N. F. Karlins ...

BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions and headbutted reactionary political orthodoxies, is rightly ...

In the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s “Manet: A Model Family,” about Édouard Manet’s enigmatic relationships, everything is transfixing and nothing adds up.

First we meet Oscar, Claude's given name, a teenage caricaturist sketching notable figures in the port city of Le Havre. By ...

Art & Exhibitions A Major Museum Survey Honors the Four ‘Grandes Dames’ of Impressionism The National Gallery of Ireland casts a light on Bracquemond, Cassatt, Gonzalès, and Morisot.