Édouard Manet, _Olympia_ , oil on canvas, 1863 (Musee d'Orsay, Paris) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker Édouard Manet brought to Realism his curiosity about social mores. However, he was not interested in mirroring polite parlor conversations and middle class promenades in the Bois de Boulogne (Paris' Central Park). Rather, Manet invented subjects that set the Parisians' teeth o
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