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.

and Olympia, with its gorgeous bouquet. And remember his admiration and imitation of Dutch and Spanish paintings. From Manet's earliest works with still-lifes, like Young Man with Cherries (1858) and ...