News about Edouard Manet

The investigation into what started the devastating blaze at the capital's iconic Somerset House continues today as fire crews remain on site. Twenty fire engines and around 125 firefighters were deployed to the 250-year-old complex at 12pm yesterday. Smoke was seen pouring from the building as firefighters took to the roofs and raised themselves up to 32 metres in the air on cherry pickers and deployed drones to survey and tackle the flames. Today, the London Fire Bridge confirmed part of the third floor and the roof of the west wing of the building were damaged by fire.

Priceless artwork housed in the capital's iconic Somerset House emerged unscathed after a fiery blaze took hold on the roof earlier today, director confirms. London firefighters battled for hours to contain inferno which ripped through building's west wing shortly before 12pm today. Luckily, priceless artworks including a Van Gogh self-portrait as well as works by Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne stored in Courtauld Gallery were unharmed by the blaze, the trust claims.

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it sent 20 fire engines - including specialist height appliances - and 125 firefighters to the 250-year-old complex after a fire broke out shortly before 12pm. Images and videos shared on social media showed smoke pouring from the building as firefighters took to the roofs and raised themselves up to 32 metres in the air on cherry pickers and deployed drones to survey and tackle the flames. The fire took place in the west wing of the building - adjacent to the north wing, which is home to famous paintings including a Van Gogh self-portrait as well as works by Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne.

With hundreds and thousands of dots now gracing the walls of his rented home in Northamptonshire, the father of four Noj Barker has gone viral with his 'dot art'. Some, which are teen and intricate, are more substantial and psychedelic than others, who are more elaborate and fessive. 'I'm deeply in love with the colours I'm working with,' he says. I'm making 'the shades'. It can be eerily hallucinogenic. Trance-like. Almost every mind-altering activity.' While Noj's dot photos may all be a little niche, they do have a following.

A.N. WILSON: We may have wished that museums had existed to remind us how diverse the human experience of life has been before. The strangeness, cruelty, and the uncanniness of human life overwhelmed visitors to the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford in days gone by. In a fairground, shrunken heads dangled like coconuts (pictured bottom right). For those of us, museums have been the beginning of our discovery of the planet's remarkable and rich cultural diversity. We can see statues made by Phidias in 5th century BC Athens, which have been preserved by scholars and conservators for all around the world to enjoy. However, today, the emphasis on museum visits is less on the exhibits and more on the visitors. For example, the Courtauld Institute in London has given visitors a'misogyny warning' for one of Edouard Manet's finest works, A Bar At The Follies-Bergere (pictured top right).