Manet reworked Titian's Venus of Urbino into a contemporary Parisian courtesan who meets our eye without shame. Shown at the Salon of 1865, it caused such outrage that guards were posted to protect it. The model was Victorine Meurent, herself a painter.
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Titian's sleeping dog has become a black cat with its tail up, arched and alert.
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