“Napoleon” costume designers divvied up their tasks, with Janty Yates concentrating on French civilian wear and David Crossman on evolving military outfits. The Ridley Scott epic follows ...

In a case of movies imitating art ... includes a shot of David, Napoleon’s official court painter and propagandist par excellence, busily drawing at the scene of the coronation.

Some 100 Napoleon artifacts from the Chalençon collection are headed to the auction block at Sotheby's Paris in June.

It takes an army to dress an army. The costume design team behind “Napoleon,” the epic retelling of Napoleon Bonaparte’s personal life and military career, had to think like the legendary ...

The painting was sold at auction in 2005 with a guide price of £15,000 A painting of Napoleon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David has been identified in New York by a University of Reading researcher.

Using a conservator’s light, he found that both paintings had remarkably similar mannerisms, modelling and use of drapery. David painted several portraits of Napoleon, including The Coronation ...

His painting and David’s appear in Brooklyn under spotlights ... wriggle in formation before David’s epic canvas of Napoleon’s coronation. She understood that, to establish your place ...

So you’d see a lot of civilian clothing mixed into those uniforms.” For Napoleon’s coronation, Yates took cues from Jacques-Louis David’s famous 1807 painting about the event. “We copied it as ...