In his upcoming book Francis Bonaparte: An American View of Napoleon II, author Tom Vance suggests the background of this portrait is that of the Imperial Castle at Persenbeug, with the waterway ...

Napoleon Bonaparte is a monumental historical figure ... bold imagery and a captivating score. However, the portrait of the polarising figure and the way it is told is anything but captivating.

In Orange's portrait, the battle is over and Napoleon can be seen standing among several Egyptian locals who have retrieved ...

Jean François Charnier, curatorial director of Agence France-Museums, who helped build the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s collection, bought this image to accompany the epic portrait “Napoleon Bonaparte ...

On a busy street in the centre of Montauban in southern France, with roadworks blasting the pavement nearby, there is a spot earmarked for a new statue of France's best-known dictator. Once Europe ...

Wiley melds references from many sources, including Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte, Islamic architecture, and hip hop culture. “I believe it’s possible to hold twin ...

It’s said that General Bernadotte, “one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s closest collaborators,” says Di Pinto, stayed at the village. “Legend has it that a portrait of a woman, brought by him ...

In the nineteenth century, naughty British schoolchildren were terrified into compliance by teachers assuring them that Napoleon would tear them “limb from limb, just as a pussy tears a mouse”. Even ...

Due to the small size of Vatican City’s population, its passport is one of the world’s rarest. Issued to members of the ...

Co-organized with the Louvre, the exhibition features both Lethière’s work and that of a number of his contemporaries. I ...

Masayoshi Son's bold bets on tech defined an era. A new book asks if the SoftBank boss is a visionary or a gambler.