This year marks the bicentennial of the French emperor’s death, and it is being widely celebrated through exhibitions paying homage to his impact on the arts. Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing ...
Curiosities is a column where I comment on the art news of the week, sometimes about stories that were too small or strange to make the cut, sometimes just giving my thoughts on the highs and lows. It ...
Eight years after the theft of 10 rare artefacts connected to Napoleon Bonaparte from a museum on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, one is going to be returned after an art dealer stumbled across the ...
Jacques-Louis David’s celebrated 19th-century portrait of Napoleon on horseback will be shown alongside the US artist Kehinde Wiley’s dramatic homage to David’s painting for the first time this autumn ...
LAFAYETTE ­— The Krewe of Bonaparte held its 43rd annual “Le Bal Du Couronnement” Feb. 16 in the Lafayette Cajundome Convention Center. The theme for this year’s celebration was “Bonaparte Works the ...
In a case of movies imitating art, and art imitating life (or some jumble along those lines), Jacques-Louis David’s monumental history painting depicting the moment Napoleon Bonaparte was publicly ...
You know the man. You know the conqueror. Now come see where he took a nap. The Art Gallery of Hamilton is offering an inside look at French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte at its ...
The French artist Pascal Convert has defended plans to install a replica skeleton of Napoleon Bonaparte’s horse above the military leader’s tomb in Paris after historians and commentators called the ...
Imperial Art is organising the first ever auction of NFTs related to physical personal property belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte. This unique auction is being held to mark the bicentenary of Napoleon I ...
A hand-colored etching published by Lacroix, in 1815 shows Napoleon being held in a dustbin with Wellington pressing down on the lid on display at an exhibition, 'Bonaparte and the British: Prints and ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ON A chilly day at the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris, a curator climbs a winding timber staircase and takes a key that is large, ...