When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865 ... Manet chooses to paint a woman of his time -- not a feminine ideal, but a real woman, and a courtesan at that.

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its ...

The triumph of a trend commonly labelled “Impressionism” was a pivotal moment in the history of art ... Manet himself was companionably married and generally cautious in his dealings with women.

A climate activist was arrested on Saturday for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting ... Paris to draw attention to global warming, a police source told AFP. The action by the woman ...

No surprise, then, that viewers at the 1882 Paris Salon were bothered ... an alienated woman at work. In the Manet painting's case, the barmaid, based on a real person named Suzon, is so striking ...