"Olympia (Manet) Olympia is a painting by Édouard Manet, first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon, which shows a nude woman (""Olympia"") lying on a bed being brought flowers by a servant. Olympia was modelled by Victorine Meurent and Olympia's servant by the art model Laure. Olympia's confrontational gaze caused shock and astonishment when the painting was first exhibited because a number of details in the picture identified her as a prostitute. The French government acquired the painting in 1890 after a public subscription organized by Claude Monet. The painting is on display at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. What shocked"
"tones. Adopting the current style of realism initiated by Gustave Courbet, he painted ""The Absinthe Drinker"" (1858–59) and other contemporary subjects such as beggars, singers, Gypsies, people in cafés, and bullfights. After his early career, he rarely painted religious, mythological, or historical subjects; examples include his ""Christ Mocked"", now in the Art Institute of Chicago, and ""Christ with Angels"", in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Manet had two canvases accepted at the Salon in 1861. A portrait of his mother and father, who at the time was paralysed and robbed of speech by a stroke, was ill-received by"
"last years Manet painted many small-scale still lifes of fruits and vegetables, such as ""Bunch of Asparagus"" and ""The Lemon"" (both 1880). He completed his last major work, ""A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère)"", in 1882 and it hung in the Salon that year. Afterwards he limited himself to small formats. His last paintings were of flowers in glass vases. In April 1883, his left foot was amputated because of gangrene, due to complications from syphilis and rheumatism. He died eleven days later on 30 April in Paris. He is buried in the Passy Cemetery in the"
"Manset in its engraving section in 1966. Manset's work was also shown at the Paris Salon. At the same time Manset approached various French advertising agencies with his drawings, without success, however. Manset began to play guitar, but was also interested in the drums. He borrowed his sister's piano book, and began learning to play it as well. Gérard Manset Gérard Manset (also known as Manset; born 21 August 1945 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French singer-songwriter, painter, photographer and writer. He is best known for his musical work. Since 1972, the covers of his albums state his name as"
"Gérard Manset Gérard Manset (also known as Manset; born 21 August 1945 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French singer-songwriter, painter, photographer and writer. He is best known for his musical work. Since 1972, the covers of his albums state his name as simply ""Manset"". Manset spent his childhood in the suburbs of Paris (Saint-Cloud) and then in the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris. He failed his baccalauréat due to the degree of a failing grade in French. In 1964, Manset was the recipient of the Concours général, and enrolled in the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. The Salon d'Automne welcomed"
"the Impressionists, especially Édouard Manet, although the refusal of the academic establishment to realize the importance of new ideas and sources of inspiration would eventually prove to be the undoing of the Academy. At the Salon of 1863, ""The Birth of Venus"" was one of a multitude of female nudes. Bathed in opalescent colors, the goddess Venus shyly looks to the viewer from beneath the crook of her elbow. Two years later, Manet presented his now renowned painting ""Olympia"" at the Salon as well. Today both hang in the Musee’d’ Orsay. Unlike Venus’s ethereal-like palette, Manet painted Olympia with pale,"
"Jules Massenet Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (; 12 May 184213 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are ""Manon"" (1884) and ""Werther"" (1892). He also composed oratorios, ballets, orchestral works, incidental music, piano pieces, songs and other music. While still a schoolboy, Massenet was admitted to France's principal music college, the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied under Ambroise Thomas, whom he greatly admired. After winning the country's top musical prize, the Prix de Rome, in 1863, he composed prolifically in"
"any particular reason. The young boy in straw hat, meanwhile, is explicitly inspired by Antoine Watteau's ""Pierrot"". The Old Musician The Old Musician is an 1862 oil painting on canvas by French painter Édouard Manet, produced during the period when the artist was influenced by Spanish art. The painting also betrays the influence of Gustave Courbet. This work is one of Manet's largest paintings and is now conserved at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The painting is composed of seven characters in a landscape. The old musician in the center who is preparing to play the violin"
"Ange-Louis Janet Ange-Louis Janet (16 November 1811 – 25 November 1872) also known under the pseudonym Janet-Lange, was a French painter, illustrator, lithographer and engraver. Born in Paris, Janet was admitted in 1833 at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in the workshops of Ingres, Horace Vernet and Alexandre-Marie Colin. He made his debut at the Salon in 1836 and continued to participate until 1870. He painted hunting scenes, military costumes and portraits and composed paintings retracing episodes of French history, such as the Crimean War from 1853 to 1856, the Second Italian War of Independence (1859) and the Second"
"a cerebral haemorrhage while cycling in the Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Ernest Ange Duez Ernest Ange Duez (also known as Ernest-Ange Duez and Ernest Duez, 8 March 1843 – 5 April 1896) was a French painter of genre scenes, portraits, landscapes and religious subjects. Although he was an admirer of Édouard Manet and owned paintings by Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot, his palette was more subdued than that of most of the Impressionists, and his technique more controlled. His style, between that of the conservative Paris Salon and Impressionism, has been called juste milieu, and he has been"
"Mans. He published a Christmas poem collection in December 1512, preceding those of Barthélémy Aneau, under a pseudonym ""Count of Alsinois"". He then went on to produce numerous writings and poetry using this alternate identity, as well as occasionally painting portraits. His writing brought him into a network of friends and contacts included many well-known French ""literati"" of his time, such as François de Belleforest, Joseph Scaliger, Bernard de Girard, Pierre Boaistuau, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Claude Roillet, and Jacques Grévin. One painting executed by Denisot ""Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley"" is part of the National Maritime Museum collection."
"Charles Monnet Charles Monnet, also known as Charles Monet, (10 January 1732 - after 1808) was a French painter and illustrator, best known for his illustrations used in books, including illustrations of the French Revolution. Born in Paris, he studied under Jean II Restout. Although he never became a full academian, on July 27, 1765 he was made a provisional member of the Académie Royale, where he won first prize for the painting, ""Nabucliodonosor faisant crever les yeux à Sédicias et faisant massacrer ses enfants"". His works in the mid 1760s and 1770s included portraits and religious and mythical scenes."
"which he gave almost one hundred concerts in Paris, all of Europe and the USA. He also conducted the Turkish National Orchestra in Istanbul for several years. He has also been organist in numerous churches in Paris and has been a member of the Union des Maîtres de Chapelle et Organistes since 1960. In 1999 he retired from teaching. Manen has composed about 140 works, including orchestral and chamber music, motets and other choral and vocal works and music educational pieces. Christian Manen Christian Manen (born 3 July 1934) is a French composer and music teacher. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Manen"
"Massenet also wrote a one-act sequel to ""Manon"", ""Le portrait de Manon"" (1894), involving the Chevalier des Grieux as an older man. The composer worked at the score of ""Manon"" at his country home outside Paris and also at a house at The Hague once occupied by Prévost himself. ""Manon"" is Massenet's most popular and enduring opera and, having ""quickly conquered the world's stages"", it has maintained an important place in the repertory since its creation. It is the quintessential example of the charm and vitality of the music and culture of the Parisian Belle Époque. In 1893 an opera"
"by Mexican firing squad of a Habsburg emperor who had been installed by Napoleon III. Neither the paintings nor a lithograph of the subject were permitted to be shown in France. As an indictment of formalized slaughter the paintings look back to Goya, and anticipate Picasso's ""Guernica"". In January 1871, Manet traveled to Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the Pyrenees. In his absence his friends added his name to the ""Fédération des artistes"" (see: Courbet) of the Paris Commune. Manet stayed away from Paris, perhaps, until after the ""semaine sanglante"": in a letter to Berthe Morisot at Cherbourg (10 June 1871) he writes,"
"both of which are famous Renaissance paintings. ""The Tempest"", which also features a fully dressed man and a nude woman in a rural setting, offers an important precedent for Manet's painting ""Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe."" ""Pastoral Concert"" even more closely resembles ""Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe,"" as it features two dressed men seated in a rural setting, with two undressed women. ""Pastoral Concert"" is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris and is likely, therefore, to have been studied by Manet. According to Proust, he and Manet had been lounging by the Seine as they spotted a woman bathing in"
"The Café-Concert (painting) The Café-Concert is an 1879 painting by the French painter Édouard Manet, who often captured café scenes depicting social life at the end of the nineteenth century similar to those depicted in this painting. The setting has been identified as the Brasserie Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart. Manet shows us men and women in the new brasseries and cafes of Paris, which presents the viewer with an alternate view of new Parisian life. Manet claimed he was painting “des oeuvres sinceres” or “sincere works”. The women depicted in these scenes were courting certain risks with regards to"
"of Manet's important paintings including ""Olympia""; and by the mid-1870s she became an accomplished painter in her own right. The painting's juxtaposition of fully dressed men and a nude woman was controversial, as was its abbreviated, sketch-like handling, an innovation that distinguished Manet from Courbet. At the same time, Manet's composition reveals his study of the old masters, as the disposition of the main figures is derived from Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving of the ""Judgement of Paris"" (c. 1515) based on a drawing by Raphael. Two additional works cited by scholars as important precedents for ""Le déjeuner sur l'herbe"" are ""Pastoral"
"name remains forever associated with Manet's masterpieces of 1863, ""The Luncheon on the Grass"" and ""Olympia"", which include nude portrayals of her. At that time she also modeled for Edgar Degas and the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens, both close friends of Manet. Her relationship with Stevens is said to have been particularly close. Manet continued to use Meurent as a model until the early 1870s, when she began taking art classes and they became estranged, as she was drawn to the more academic style of painting that Manet opposed. The last Manet painting in which Meurent appears is ""Gare Saint-Lazare"""
"more decorative and playful style emerged, exemplified by François Boucher's ""Venus Consoling Love"", likely commissioned by Madame Pompadour. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, classical subjects remained popular, along with nudes in historical paintings. In the later nineteenth century, academic painters continued with classical themes, but were challenged by the Impressionists. Eduard Manet shocked the public of his time by painting nude women in contemporary situations in his ""Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe"" (1863) and ""Olympia"" (1865), and Gustave Courbet earned criticism for portraying in his ""Woman with a Parrot"" a naked prostitute without vestige of goddess or nymph. Edgar Degas"
"The Spanish Singer The Spanish Singer is an 1860 oil painting on canvas by the French painter Édouard Manet, conserved since 1949 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York. Composed in Manet's studio, it employed a model and props which were later used for at least one other painting. This work, both realistic and exotic in its depiction of its subject, exhibits the influence of Spanish art, especially that of Diego Velázquez, on Manet's style. Manet, due to this painting, was accepted for the first time at the Salon of Paris in 1861, where he also exhibited a"
"The Railway The Railway, widely known as Gare Saint-Lazare, is an 1873 painting by Édouard Manet. It is the last painting by Manet of his favourite model, the fellow painter Victorine Meurent, who was also the model for his earlier works ""Olympia"" and the ""Luncheon on the Grass"". It was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1874, and donated to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1956. Meurent is depicted sitting to the left side of the frame, in front of an iron fence near the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris. The pensive subject is wearing a dark"
"an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of two masterpieces by Édouard Manet (""Olympia"" and ""Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe"", 1863). Thurnauer contributed the painting """", which features a rendition of Manet's Olympia with textual terms of endearment superimposed upon the image. Thurnauer was also a speaker at the associated conference. During a period of two months in 2015, Jesus College at the University of Cambridge replaced three portraits of male alumni in the formal dining hall with a crayon drawing triptych by Thurnauer, called ""You"". These large portraits of women are extractions from paintings by Manet: ""A Bar at the Folies-Bergère"","
"Christian Manen Christian Manen (born 3 July 1934) is a French composer and music teacher. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Manen studied at the Conservatory of Nice and between 1949 and 1961 at the Conservatoire de Paris. Here he was a student of Berthe Duru (solfège), Jules Gentil (piano), Félix Passerone (drums), Marcel Dupré and Rolande Falcinelli (organ and improvisation), Louis Fourestier (conducting), Noël Gallon (counterpoint and fugue), Henri Challan (harmony), Norbert Dufourcq (music history) and Tony Aubin (composition). In 1961 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata ""La Loreley"". This was followed by a stay at the"
"depicts Étienne Chevalier with his patron saint St. Stephen, and is now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. The right wing shows a pale Virgin and Child surrounded by red and blue angels and is now at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp. Since at least the seventeenth century, the Virgin has been recognized as a portrait of Agnès Sorel. The Louvre has his oil portraits of Charles VII, of Count Wilczek, and of Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, and a portrait drawing in crayon. Jean Fouquet Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (1420–1481) was a preeminent French painter of the 15th century, a"
"On 7 May 1953, the commune of Mantes-Gassicourt was officially renamed Mantes-la-Jolie (meaning ""Mantes the pretty""), allegedly in reference to a letter of King Henry IV addressed to his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées who resided in Mantes: ""I am on my way to Mantes, my pretty"" (). At the end of the 19th century, Impressionist painters like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet and Claude Monet came to paint the Seine River which crosses the town. Jean Batiste Corot painting of the Old Mantes bridge is showed at the Louvres Inhabitants are called ""Mantais"". The city had a total of 44,985 inhabitants in"
"are for the arts! But there is at least one consolation in our misfortunes: that we're not politicians and have no desire to be elected as deputies"""". Manet depicted many scenes of the streets of Paris in his works. The ""Rue Mosnier Decked with Flags"" depicts red, white, and blue pennants covering buildings on either side of the street; another painting of the same title features a one-legged man walking with crutches. Again depicting the same street, but this time in a different context, is ""Rue Mosnier with Pavers"", in which men repair the roadway while people and horses move"
"Emmanuel Frémiet Emmanuel Frémiet (6 December 1824 – 10 September 1910) was a French sculptor. He is famous for his sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris (and its ""sister"" statues in Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon) and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez. The noted sculptor Pierre-Nicolas Tourgueneff was one of many students who learned sculpture under the tutelage of Frémiet. Born in Paris, he was a nephew and pupil of Sophie Frémiet, and later he became a pupil of her husband François Rude. He chiefly devoted himself to animal sculpture. His earliest work was in scientific lithography"
"made possible the completion of a painting in a single sitting. It was adopted by the Impressionists, and became the prevalent method of painting in oils for generations that followed. Manet's work is considered ""early modern"", partially because of the opaque flatness of his surfaces, the frequent sketchlike passages, and the black outlining of figures, all of which draw attention to the surface of the picture plane and the material quality of paint. The art historian Beatrice Farwell says Manet ""has been universally regarded as the Father of Modernism. With Courbet he was among the first to take serious risks"
"Paul Manz Paul Otto Manz (May 10, 1919 – October 28, 2009), was an American composer for choir and organ. His most famous choral work is the Advent motet ""E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come"", which has been performed at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge, though its broadcast by the neighbouring Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, in its Advent Carol Service precipitated its popularity. His most famous organ works are his volumes of neo-Baroque chorale preludes and partitas. Paul Manz long served the church as recitalist, composer, teacher and leader in worship. He"
"painting is plainly constructed rather than carefully styled. This departure from tradition would have been controversial with contemporary viewers. Le Suicidé Le Suicidé is a small oil painting by Édouard Manet, completed between 1877 and 1881. The painting has been little studied within Manet's oeuvre, as if art historians have had difficulty finding a place for the work within the development of Manet's art. The pictorial content of the painting is limited to a man who appears to have just shot himself—still holding a gun while slouched on a bed—and a few pieces of furniture. Manet has removed the trappings"
"or accepting the viewer, looking past the viewer, engaging the viewer, or even looking at the viewer at all. This encounter identifies the gaze as a figure of the painting itself, as well as the figure object of the woman’s gaze. As with the later ""Olympia"" (1863) and other works, Manet's composition reveals his study of the old masters, as the disposition of the main figures is derived from Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving ""The Judgment of Paris"" (c. 1515) after a drawing by Raphael. Raphael was an artist revered by the conservative members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and his paintings"
"of Paris. The Gare Saint-Lazare has been represented in a number of artworks. It attracted artists during the Impressionist period and many of them lived very close to the Gare St-Lazare during the 1870s and 1880s. Édouard Manet lived close by, at 4 rue de Saint-Pétersbourg. Two years after moving to the area he showed his painting ""The Railway"", (also known as ""Gare Saint-Lazare"") at the Paris Salon in 1874. Painted from the backyard of a friend's house on the nearby rue de Rome, this canvas, now in the National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C., portrays a woman with"