2008-9-26 5:20am
Simply shocking. That was the reaction when Edouard Manet’s painting ‘Dejeuner sur l’Herbe’ (Luncheon on the Grass) was first unveiled at the Salon des Refuses in 1863.
This painting reflected to some extent the new-found leisure time of Paris’s Second Empire society in the last half of the 19th century.
What horrified most [...]
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