Catch Édouard Manet's Olympia at The Met in New York. Will it shock you as much as it did in Paris in 1865, when the Salon had to hire armed guards?

Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” – now on display in New York – is hardly shocking today. But it both outraged and revitalised the world of art in 1865: the Paris Salon even had to hire armed guards.

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