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 if he fathered modern art, why can no one say whether he was also the father of Léon, the boy who was his second most frequently ... in at least 18 Manet oil paintings and various works ...

The reason this 1882 painting has become a hit on the social media app X has nothing to do with Manet's radically cold touch, or even the fact that the work is famous at all. Instead, it has to do ...