Tag: Musee d’Orsay

Manet’s ‘Olympia,’ the 19th Century’s Most Scandalous Painting, Comes to New York

“A colossal ineptitude,” one enraged critic called it. “Her face is stupid,” another wrote. The papers declared it “shapeless,” “putrefied,” “incomprehensible.” They said it “recalls the horror of the morgue.” And when the Parisian crowds rolled into the Salon of 1865, they too went berserk in front of Édouard Manet’s painting of a courtesan, her […]

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