A new exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art pairs two friends’ paintings side by side. In that proximity, viewers can appreciate the similarities and differences between work by Édouard Manet and ...

Eva Gonzalès was not only lucky enough to be born in Paris in the 1840s, at a time when the city’s art world was experiencing a profound artistic revolution, but to be born to parents who allowed her ...

The works of French artists Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot have been exhibited in museums around the world over the past century. But no major exhibition has explicitly explored the creative ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

Berthe Morisot, "Intérieur," (1872), oil on canvas (photo by Randy Dodson, courtesy the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; all other photos Bridget Quinn/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) SAN ...

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 ...

Édouard Manet was infatuated with all things Spanish — and especially Spain’s greatest painter Art is inseparable from society, but the two things don’t seem to progress in lockstep. The relationship ...

Edgar Degas, "Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet” (1868–69), oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 27 15/16 inches; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (photo courtesy Kitakyushu Municipal Museum) Punctuation as ...

The title of Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass in English) sounds innocent enough, but the 1863 painting generated quite the scandal in 19th-century Paris. In the ...

The works of French artists Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot have been exhibited in museums around the world over the past century. But no major exhibition has explicitly explored the creative ...