When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in ...

Long accustomed to impressionists’ ways of perceiving the world, we put paintings by Monet and Renoir on tea towels and ...

And art is one of the methods invented by humans to record and rekindle it. Manet and Morisot were both key figures in what became the impressionist movement: Manet was the so-called father of ...

There’s certainly no shortage of public interest, judging by the huge response to the Courtauld’s recent Monet in London exhibition and the National’s just-closed Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers – the most ...