• "Shocking" was the word used to describe Édouard Manet's masterpiece when it was first unveiled in Paris in 1865.
  • 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.
  • With Olympia, Manet reworked the traditional theme of the female nude, using a strong, uncompromising technique.
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • If Manet rejected an established approach to painting that valued the timeless and eternal, Olympia served to further embody, for his scandalized viewers...
  • Olympia est un tableau célèbre d'Édouard Manet conservé au musée d'Orsay à Paris.
  • Édouard Manet’nin 1865’te Paris Salonu’nda sergilenen “Olympia” tablosu büyük bir şaşkınlığa ve skandala neden olmuştu.
  • 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...
  • Many of the details of Olympia by Édouard Manet suggested that the woman in the painting was actually a prostitute, causing many to be shocked by her...
  • Édouard Manet asked himself why lie, why not tell the truth; he introduced us to Olympia, this fille (girl) of our time, whom you meet on the sidewalks.
  • The final painting in the exhibition shows a Venus very different from both Manet's "Olympia" and the artworks which precede it.