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.

A rare early work by Vincent van ... which include famous names like Manet, Rubens and Rodin, the undisputed stars of the show are two paintings: Van Gogh’s “Tete de paysanne a la coiffe ...