Titian’s Venus of Urbino (1538) and Édouard Manet’s Olympia (1863)

(As featured in Judith Rodenbeck’s Modern Art lecture)

Edouard Manet, Portrait of Emile Zola, 1868. Looking at the role of the artist in society.

(As featured in Judith Rodenbeck’s Modern Art lecture)

Manet’s version of the historical painting with reference to Goya.

(As featured in Judith Rodenbeck’s Modern Art lecture)

Two fairly contemporaneous images of stonebreakers. Thinking about the way in which an artist chooses to deliver information, note how they differ.

(As featured in Judith Rodenbeck’s Modern Art lecture)