Podcast Episode 36: Olympia by Édouard Manet

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.

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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

https://m.musee-orsay.fr/en/works/commentaire_id/olympia-7087.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(Manet)

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/olympia/ywFEI4rxgCSO1Q?hl=en

https://smarthistory.org/edouard-manet-olympia/

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mane/hd_mane.htm