Author: John A. SainsburyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338512252X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Catalogue of The Napoleon Museum
Author: John A. SainsburyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338512252X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. Catalogue of the Napoleon Museum, or illustrated history of Europe, etc
Author: John SainsburyCatalogue of the ... museum formed by John Sainsbury ... which will be sold by auction
Author: John SainsburyNapoleon and the British
Author: Stuart SemmelPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9780300090017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
What did Napoleon Bonaparte mean to the British people? This engaging book reconstructs the role that the French leader played in the British political, cultural, and religious imagination in the early nineteenth century. Denounced by many as a tyrant or monster, Napoleon nevertheless had sympathizers in Britain. Stuart Semmel explores the ways in which the British used Napoleon to think about their own history, identity, and destiny. Many attacked Napoleon but worried that the British national character might not be adequate to the task of defeating him. Others, radicals and reformers, used Napoleon's example to criticize the British constitution. Semmel mines a wide array of sources--ranging from political pamphlets and astrological almanacs to sonnets by canonical Romantic poets--to reveal surprising corners of late Hanoverian politics and culture.
The Arts Under Napoleon
Author: Clare Le CorbeillerPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Unique ... Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets. Collected and Arranged by J. R. Smith
Author: John Russell SmithPlunder
Author: Cynthia SaltzmanPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivatingstudy of Napoleon’s plundering of Europe’s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers’ space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon’s looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character: his thirst for greatness—to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization—and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre’s plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, The Wedding Feast at Cana remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa. Expertly researched and deftly told, Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history, one that sheds light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the great museums of the world.
Napoleon
Author: Sylvain CordierPublisher: Editions Hazan, Paris
ISBN: 9780300233469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Napoleon: Art and Court Life in the Imperial Palace" organized and toured by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; with the participation of the Chãateau de Fontainebleau and the outstanding support of the Mobilier national, Paris; under the directorship of Nathalie Bondil (Director General and Chief Curator, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts); exhibitions curator, Sylvain Cordier (Curator of Early Decorative Arts, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. [Held in] Canada, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Michael and Renata Hornstein Pavilion, February 3-May 6, 2018; United States, Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts June 9-September 3, 2018; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art October 19, 2018-March 3, 2019; France, Fontainebleau Musâee national du chãateau de Fontainebleau April 5-July 15, 2019"--Title page.
The Age of Napoleon
Author: Charles Otto ZiesenissPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995715
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Catalogue of Pictures and Historical Relics
Author: Marie TussaudPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781378051504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
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