Month: June 2013

Finding Napoleon in St Petersburg, Florida

June 26, 2013 July 19, 2020

This past weekend I attended the Historical Novel Society’s annual convention (more on that later) in St Petersburg, Florida. For a city of 250,000 residents, St Petersburg has a surprising trove of art museums, including the Salvador Dali Museum shown in the photo above. Of course I was on the lookout for Napoleon. Sure …

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Napoleon’s Coronation Painting

June 2, 2013 July 19, 2020

Napoleon's Mother in David's Coronation of Napoleon painting

When I’m at the Louvre Museum, I seek out Jacques-Louis David’s imposing—if not exactly beautiful—painting of Napoleon and Josephine’s coronation. At thirty-two feet long by twenty feet tall, it’s slightly smaller than Veronese’s The Wedding at Cana, the Louvre’s largest painting. The French refer to it as Le Sacre, but its official name is The …

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