this book provides clarity and insight into the visual consequences of artists’ use of materials and deepens our understanding of how paintings on canvas behave over time and in relation to their environment

61 color and 75 b/w illustrations

Catherine Hall-van den Elsen delves into 17th-century Spanish society

Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss

and Faculty Curator of the Art of the Americas

Manet & Morisot ornaments this book provides clarity andAn intimate exploration of an artistic friendship at the heart of the Impressionist movement douard Manet (18321883) was a pioneer of modern painting, and Berthe Morisot (18411895) was the sole female founding member of the Impressionist group. To each other, they were colleagues, friends, andfollowing Morisots marriage to Manets brotherfamily. Unfolding over a period of fifteen years, theirs was arguably the closest relationship between any two