Welcome to Season 8 of Accessible Art History: The Podcast! This season, I'll be discussing works from the Impressionist and Post Impressionist periods. To kick things off, I'm going to be discussing the scandalous Olympia by Édouard Manet.
Venus of Urbino
Titian, 1532
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Sleeping Venus
Giorgione, 1510
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La Maja Desnuda
Goya, c. 1797
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La Grande Odalisque
Ingres, 1814
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Édouard Manet
c. 1870
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The Luncheon on the Grass
1863
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The Fifer
1866
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A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
1882
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Sources
Gardner’s Art through the Ages, 12th edition by Fred S. Kleiner
New information became available about this painting, and it can be considered fully "decoded"