By contrast, in the painting’s warm, dusky hues, Napoleon is a florid pillar of unperturbed, even heroic strength. Amid a grim, foreign tableau of misery and woe, he radiates light at center stage.

The painting depicts Bannon in the style of The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, an 1812 work by Jacques-Louis David that hangs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

But Napoleon’s men could not be dissuaded. The artwork was brazenly taken down, wrapped in a Tintoretto, a Titian and two other Veroneses, and shipped to Paris.

Not all of the works looted by Napoleon were returned to their respective homes, the most famous and emblematic being Paolo Veronese’s enormous painting The Wedding at Cana (1562-63).

Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1801, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria. Like many historical figures, Napoléon Bonaparte is a polarizing one. Be that as it ...

Napoleon’s armies would march for the next decade, and they stole artwork wherever they went. Spain, Portugal, the Low Countries, Italy, and Germany were all robbed of artworks that were then ...

In this age of social media and Instagram filters, the story of Napoleon could not be more timely. The self-made man carefully crafted all aspects of his public image.

Frye Art Museum mixes it up with exhibits displaying Napoleonic art, contemporary video and works from its permanent collection. "Napoleon on the Nile" and the rest are reviewed by art ...

Napoleona went on exhibition last week at the Museum of French Art in Manhattan. Maudlin sentimentalizers sniffled; shallow women giggled, pointed. In a glass case they saw something looking like a ...

An art lover and a patriot, Puccini had spent months plotting the escape, mindful of the scourge that had struck the peninsula’s other città d’arte since Napoléon first crossed the Alps in 1796.

The artwork immortalizing the French military leader’s loyal steed has enraged several historians and politicians. Historian Thierry Lentz, director of the Napoleon Foundation, wrote on Twitter ...