Art museum to showcase host of events on Manet

The exhibit, Manet: Portraying Life runs until Jan. 1. Admission is $8 for ages 23 to 64; $5 for others, and free for children 5 and younger. Information: 419-255-8000 and toledomuseum.org.

Here’s a rundown of the related programs:

Manet Programs

Oil Portraits

Ï Thursday, 6 p.m., in the Peristyle: Gary Tinterow, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (and a 28-year veteran of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York) will discuss Manet’s love of Spanish art. Free.

Portrait Oil Painting

Ï Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m., in the Little Theater: Richard Putney, a professor of art history at the University of Toledo, will give an illustrated lecture on Paris in the time of Manet, an era of artistic, political, artistic, and topographic transformation.

Manet’s Paris, a free film series in the Little Theater

Ï Gervaise; 8 p.m. Friday. Set in 19th century Paris and based on the novel L’Assommoir by Emile Zola, Gerviase chronicles the struggles of a laundry girl determined to improve her lot in life. (1956, 114 min., French with subtitles.)

Ï Edouard Manet, A Disturbing Strangeness, 8 p.m. Oct. 19. An exuberant film documenting Manet and his world. (2011, 52 min., French with subtitles.)

Ï Madame Bovary, 8 p.m. Nov. 9. The provocative title character explores her passions. (1949, 115 min., by Vincent Minnelli.)

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