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

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

Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s trove is one of the most comprehensive private Napoleonic collections ever to come to market.

which took place at Notre Dame in 1804 and is depicted in “The Coronation of Napoleon,” the 1807 painting by Jacques-Louis David. “He sums up the whole Napoleonic Empire in his art,” Yates ...

One of the most famous paintings of Joan is Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' "Joan of Arc at Coronation of Charles ... wore plate armor in real life. 4. Napoleon's reign collapsed while Ingres ...

About an hour into Ridley Scott's epic movie, the cinema screen is filled with the sumptuous Imperial Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine ... In fact, as art and jewellery historian Diana ...

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.

“With Joséphine’s wardrobe, we tried to build an arc, from when she wears a simple velvet ribbon around her neck – which symbolised [her] survival of the guillotine – to the coronation ... revival of ...

SIEGFRIED Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 272 pp.; 48 color ills., 82 b/w. $55.00 A few years after the bicentenaire of ...