Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press ... with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known ...

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.

Perhaps her most famous painting is The Cradle ... Morisot’s style, gentle and unemphatic, is unmistakably Impressionist; Manet, on the other hand, can’t be easily pigeonholed.

Paul Cezanne is often called the ‘father of modern art’. He was the artist who bridged the gap between Impressionism and ... One of Cezanne's most famous and haunting works is ‘Pyramid ...

Max Liebermann was a German-Jewish painter best known as a leader of the Impressionist ... Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. He died on February 8, 1935 in Berlin ...