With Olympia, Manet rebels against the art establishment of the time. Taking Titian's Venus of Urbino as his model, Manet creates a work he thinks will grant him a place in the pantheon of great ...
Sometime around 1570, celebrated Renaissance artist Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian, painted a scene of Pontius Pilate, the Roman ruler of ancient Judea, presenting Jesus to an unseen crowd.