Edouard Manet (1832-1883) once said that "a painter can say all he wants to with fruit or flowers or even clouds..." The exhibition, "Manet: The Still-Life Paintings," now at the Walters Art Museum in ...

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.