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This fall, Édouard Manet’s famed 1863 painting Olympia will travel from Paris to New York for the first time. Olympia, among other works by Manet, will be on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning September 24. The show, aptly titled “Manet/Degas,” pairs Manet with his fellow Frenchman, one-time friend, and rival, the enigmatic Edgar Degas. The show, which comes to New York after a run at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, examines a radical period of French painting through the lens of the artists’ tempestuous bond. Related Articles Two images of chandeliers that appear to be made of...

A chronological view of Impressionist, Post-Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism art at The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, to the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E-Flat Major, Op 167 by Saint Saens.

Watch the development of Impressionism chronologically through the art images of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (1867-1927) Shown to the music of Joseph Blanchard.

A chronological view of the Impressionist art of the Art Institute of Chicago, done to Trevor Pinnock's Scarlatti Sonata in E major - K.38.

I like to take a different perspective on things as I think you learn different things from different approaches. This goes chronologically through a range of artists, so you can see what people were painting around the same time. Starts earlier than Impressionist Period and goes a bit later. Two sections - first On View; second Not On View. Artists listed at the end in their order of appearance in the video. Trevor Pinnock's Bach's Goldberg Variations - 7, 11 and 22.

Do you despise Renoir? You must know you are not alone. Renoir-loathing is a default position in today’s art world and seems to gather more adherents in the wider population each year. Expressions of it crop up in the strangest places. In 2015, provocateur Max Geller organized a “Renoir Sucks at Painting” protest outside Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. “Activists” brandished signs calling Renoir an “aesthetic terrorist” and saying: “Other art is worth your while! Renoir paints a steaming pile!” and “God hates Renoir.” (When I called Geller’s protests “sophomoric” in the Boston Globe he challenged me to a duel...

A Claude Monet painting from his celebrated "Meules" (Haystacks) series fetched $110.7 million in New York on Tuesday in an auction record for the French Impressionist master. The sale at Sotheby's -- the first time the work had come to auction since 1986 -- fetched one of the 10 highest prices ever seen at auction. The total, which includes fees and the commission, was more than 44 times the previous record for the work.

After a 14-minute battle involving five bidders — four on the phone and one in the room — a new auction high was set for the French Impressionist Claude Monet on Wednesday evening when the artist’s radiant 1891 canvas “Meule,” or “Grainstack,” fetched $81.4 million with fees at Christie’s in Manhattan. “The Impressionist market is alive and well,” said Brooke Lampley, head of the Impressionist and Modern Art department at the auction house.

Misty Copeland is more than one of the greatest ballet dancers in the world, now she’s quite literally a work of art. In the stunning new series of photographs by NYC Dance Project, Copeland expertly re-creates a handful of Edgar Degas’s most famous ballet works. The series, originally published by Harper’s Bazaar, is released ahead of a Degas exhibit coming to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

When ranting about his profound contempt for Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Max Geller frequently returns to the word “treacle.” The French Impressionist painter’s renderings of bourgeois leisure are shamelessly “treacly”; his portraits of doll-faced young girls are “fluffy treacle;” his misogynistic portraits of women “traffic in the most treacly pallets”; his entire oeuvre is a “steaming pile of treacle.”

A nine-year-old art genius nicknamed 'Mini Monet' is about to become a millionaire after selling his latest collection of 24 paintings for £250,000. Kieron Williamson, from Norfolk, had his landscape pictures snapped up by telephone and internet buyers from around the world in just 15 minutes during a recent sale. The youngster only started painting during a family trip to Devon and Cornwall in 2008 - before then he had just coloured in dinosaurs his parents had drawn for him.

... At the centre of Catholic art is the human figure. This is extremely bold, and marks us off from all other religious and cultural inheritances. The contempt felt today among the halbbildungen for the "Old Masters," and for the idealists of "the beautiful," is not for their art but for their Catholicism. Item: This sculptural focus upon the figure -- Christ, saints, Madonnas, etc. -- is what makes mediaeval and renaissance art all of one piece. Item: Protestants progressively abandoned the whole figure for bourgeois facial portraiture. This had little to do with “puritanism.” It was more like the...

The French painter Claude Monet is being used as an environmental monitor, for scientists believe his legendary paintings of the Houses of Parliament can serve as a useful indicator of smog levels in late 19th-century London. Monet's so-called London series was painted during visits between 1899 and 1905, capturing scenes that are often astonishing for their grey and purplish haze. Many experts have assumed, though, that this extraordinary effect was an Impressionistic embellishment. Environmental researchers at the University of Birmingham in central England analyzed nine out of 19 Monet paintings of the Houses of Parliament, painted between 1899 and 1901....