Only a few of Manet’s contemporaries, above all Émile Zola and Charles Baudelaire, could see that the flatness expressed something essential about the modern, alienated Paris, where real lives ...

"Emile Zola" by Édouard Manet, 1868 Musée d’Orsay. Luxuriously rich and deep, the painting exudes cosmopolitanism, Paris as a cultural crossroads, the epitome of a modern metropolis.

Guillaume Canet, left, and Guillaume Gallienne star as French artists and friends Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne, respectively, only one of whom got to enjoy legendary fame in his lifetime.

During the early morning hours of Sept. 29, 1902, Emile Zola died in his sleep of carbon monoxide poisoning from a defective flue. The Enduring Moral Outrage of Emile Zola - Los Angeles Times ...

Manet decided to bring French novelist Émile Zola, who produced a handwritten account of the incident that could fetch up to £6,000 (~$7,565) in an online Christie’s sale closing December 15.

Manet brought the hidden world of the everyday into the light and made it remarkable. For all that’s reserved about Olympia’s demeanor, the passion of her creator is there in every stroke and ...

Portrait of Emile Zola 1868 Violets and Fan 1872 Still Life with Melon 1866 Moss Roses in a Vase 1882: Manet's Still Lifes by N. F. Karlins Edouard Manet (1832-1883) once said that "a painter can say ...

And Zola was scornful of Proudhon’s disciplinarian attack on artists who failed to rally to the socialist cause. Proudhon had concluded his book demanding the banishment of artists who would not bow ...

Emile Zola was the nineteenth century literary giant with a fierce passion for the truth. A friend of Cezanne and Manet, he started out as a journalist and never lost the desire to hunt down a ...

The word “masterpiece” is thrown around these days without a second thought. But when it comes to the Norton Simon Museum’s upcoming exhibit, there’s no other word to us… ...

To see the Toledo Museum of Art's excellent exhibition on the portraits of Edouard Manet is to see what rattled conservative observers in the artist’s own day - and what makes his work ...