Manet

  • Édouard Manet (1832-1883)

    Édouard Manet (1832-1883)

    Happy birthday to Edouard Manet, born on this day in 1832! Manet had a short (he died in 1883) but incredibly important artistic career. read more

  • A Venetian Palazzo in Boston: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    A Venetian Palazzo in Boston: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    A museum created out of the pursuit of pleasure and left behind for public enjoyment and education. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Museum in Boston is a really unique and wonderful place which arguably, almost a century since she died, Isabella still exerts a certain control over. When she left the museum behind, along with an endowment read more

  • The Birth of Modern Life at Musée d’Orsay

    The Birth of Modern Life at Musée d’Orsay

    In the nineteenth century, Paris became the city of modernity. But art, it seemed, needed to catch up – and Baudelaire’s call for artists to paint modern life is truly evident at the d’Orsay. read more

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