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Item Number: 134107
Title: Napoleón y el espejo de la Antigüedad : arqueología de las imágenes del poder
Author: Minguez, Victor ; Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788437094656
Description: Valencia: Universitat de Valencia, Department d'Història de l'Art, 2014. 24cm., pbk., 489p., 164 color illus. Spanish text. Summary: During Napoleon’s astounding accession to power, the artists in his entourage developed a visual narrative inspired by Roman iconography to reinforce the image of an undefeated military hero favoured by Fortune. For three centuries, during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the House of Habsburg, as traditional holders of the Holy Roman Emperorship and Kings of Spanish Monarchy, had deployed an artistic programme of propaganda that drew on the symbols and rituals of the classical world. The Habsburg and Bonaparte dynasties were united through the marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise in 1811. Emperor Bonaparte titled his new-born son King of Rome, recalling the legendary figure of Romulus and the greatness of the Rex Romanorum, which preceded the Germanic emperorship. During this period Antiquity became a splendid mirror that magnified Napoleon’s heroic deeds. The visual rhetoric of power in Napoleon’s court reached its peak with the European Romanticism, when new artists and writers depicted Napoleon as the ultimate tragic hero comparable only to Alexander the Great or Caesar. (Cuadernos Ars Longa, 5)

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