After visiting the D’orsay on the Sunday afternoon , I can say I have a new-found appreciation for the movements that shaped art from 1848-1914. This museum, which used to be a former train station, is home to the world’s largest haul of impressionist and post-impressionist art, and it’s such a…
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Much love to everybody who sent me recommendations of things to do for this trip! As it was a quick one, I decided to go for the art and cultural biggies and make it my mission to see Mona at The Louvre, Jeff Koon at The Centre Pompidou and learn more about…
Edouard Manet is probably best known for his highly controversial painting Olympia, the scandalously and decidedly naked Parisian prostituée with her arresting gaze. But the woman depicted in Olympia is just one of a whole host of models who sat for the French nineteenth-century painter. This month, the Royal Academy of…