How did a republican like Manet come to revere a court artist who spent his career enhancing the prestige of the autocratic monarch King Philip IV? When you’re in front of the paintings ...

Manet, obviously influenced by him ... while money was lavished on court entertainments. When the 16-year-old Philip IV ascended to the throne in 1621, the new prime minister, Gaspar de Guzmán ...

What are you looking at?: Edouard Manet's 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergère' Philip Pullman on 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergère' by Edouard Manet, 1882. This painting is full of mystery, ambiguity ...