Calouste Gulbenkian MuseumLisbon, Portugal

Works of Art in Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

See how both Manet and Chardin veil their meaning in the same way

 Manet’s and Chardin’s Soap Bubbles (18th/19th Cent.)

Manet’s and Chardin’s Soap Bubbles (18th/19th Cent.)

Artists do not have to use their own features in a portrait of someone else. There are other ways of identifying with the sitter as Manet demonstrates in this portrait.

 Manet’s Boy with Cherries (1860)

Manet’s Boy with Cherries (1860)

Several clues, easy to spot, reveal the true underlying meaning of two similar masterpieces

 Rembrandt’s Man in Armour (1655) and Minerva (c.1655)

Rembrandt’s Man in Armour (1655) and Minerva (c.1655)

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