Manet challenges the accepted function of art in France, which is to glorify history and the French state, and creates what some consider the first modern painting. His model, Victorine Meurent ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris is more than just the world’s largest art museum; it is a living testament to centuries of French history, artistry, and ambition. With each passing reign, from ...

(JTA) — The French government said that it will return a Gustav Klimt landscape painting that the Nazis ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century.

She said the painting bore witness to the "broken lives" of the Nazi era. The French state bought the work, its only Klimt, in 1980 without realising its history. The pre-war owner of Rosiers sous ...