French museum renames masterpieces after black subjects French art masterpieces have been renamed after their long overlooked black subjects in a new Paris show on the representation of black people in art. The centrepiece of the show, Manet's "Olympia", the scandalous painting of a naked reclining prostitute that marks the birth of "modern art", has kept its title, while top billing for the painting in its display now goes to "Laure", the woman who posed as her black maid. But several major works have been given new names after curators of "Black Models: From Gericault to Matisse" -- which opens Tuesday at the d'Orsay Museum -- turned historical detective to hunt down the identity of their sitters. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES