Édouard Manet is best known for his realistic paintings of Parisian life, but this month the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston delves into the artist's lesser-known medium—his prints and drawings—in Manet ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Long before smartphones turned so many of us into amateur photographers and revolutionized how we depict each other through social media, there were the works of French ...

Sky and sea, smoke and steam were a combination of elements irresistible to Impressionist painters. And one June day 139 years ago, those elements merged off the coast of France in one of the most ...

One of the most splendid exhibitions in recent years, both for the works and their presentation, is ”Manet as Printmaker,” a show wholly drawn from the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago. The ...

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

BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions and headbutted reactionary political orthodoxies, is rightly described ...

For almost as long as artists have been painting floral still lifes, the subject has been doubted or belittled when it hasn’t been dismissed. Even the great Dutch flower paintings of the early 1600s ...

Édouard Manet became notorious in the 1860s when his paintings were submitted to Paris’s annual Salon, an officially sanctioned, popular, juried exhibition designed to showcase the latest, most ...

Different artists have seen the world with their own lenses. Some saw the beauty of the trees and flowers while others saw the beauty of human touch. Some painted beautiful winters and some others ...