• Edouard Manet’s notorious painting Olympia was one of the most controversial artworks in the entire history of art.
  • Olympia is a 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid.
  • "Shocking" was the word used to describe Édouard Manet's masterpiece when it was first unveiled in Paris in 1865.
  • At the same Salon Manet also showed Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, and this pairing of religious and aggressively secular subjects rendered Olympia even more...
  • With Olympia, Manet reworked the traditional theme of the female nude, using a strong, uncompromising technique.
  • If Manet rejected an established approach to painting that valued the timeless and eternal, Olympia served to further embody, for his scandalized viewers...
  • Olympia, Edouard Manet, Musée d’Orsay — public domain from Wiki Commons. ... And that is why Olympia was so shocking when it was first shown in the 1860s.
  • Olympia, Fransız ressam Édouard Manet'nin 1863 yılında tamamladığı tablosudur. Gerçekçilik akımının bir örneği olan eser...
  • Olympia was the gift of a group of art lovers and painters to the Luxembourg in 1890 and was transferred to the Louvre in 1908.
  • Brush Strokes of Manet's Olympia A detail of A detail from Olympia (1863) by Édouard Manet, showing the loose brush strokes used by the artist...
  • In 1865, Édouard Manet exhibited a great surprise and scandal in the "Olympia" painting on display at the Paris Salon.
  • Edouard Manet's Olympia is one of the most controversial, enduring and intriguing paintings from the impressionist movement.