Thomas Doyle was charged with wire fraud for stealing a Courbet painting and selling it, with U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton ...

After finally agreeing to teach painting, Gustave Courbet brought a cow – rather than a human – to model for his class. The French artist’s conviction that the "living art’’ he sought to paint ...

Gustave Courbet was already an art star but still itching for greater renown when he took matters into his own bold hands in 1855. Dissatisfied with the works representing him in the official Salon, ...

"[They] call me ‘the socialist painter.' I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a democrat and a Republican as well--in a word, a partisan of all the revolution and above all ...

The painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866)—an explicit full-frontal female nude by the French painter Gustave Courbet—has been vandalised by protestors who daubed the work with ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter "When I stop being controversial, I'll stop being important," Gustave Courbet wrote to his parents in 1852. He was in his early ...

Courbet described the man in his Wounded Man (1844–54) portrait as a wounded duelist "in his death throes." courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Courbet's sisters served as models for the women ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Facebook’s history of censoring nudes has just landed the social media network in a difficult spot. In the latest development of a legal battle that began in 2011, Gustave Courbet enthusiast and ...

For decades, art lovers believed the painting was lost, maybe even destroyed, a casualty of Red Army or Nazi looting in Hungary during World War II. But unlike so many other tales of plundered ...