Walking through a museum today, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that many of the works hanging silently on those walls once caused riots of various sorts, with crowds jeering and critics fuming. These seven pieces felt like they arrived as provocations, and the public let them know it. 1. Édouard Manet, Olympia (1863) When Olympia hit the 1865 Paris Salon, critics were truly horrified. The subject itself, a reclining nude, was nothing new. Howe…
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