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.

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon hung an oil painting of himself dressed as Napoleon on his office wall in the before the 2016 election, according to a report from New York Magazine.. The ...

The oil painting, he goes on to describe, depicts Bannon dressed as Napoleon posing as the French emperor did in the portrait The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries by Jacques-Louis David.

A trove of objects that portray Napoleon Bonaparte at his most powerful—and his most personal—sold for a whopping total of nearly $10 million at auction. An iconic portrait of the French emperor at ...

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).

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 ...

For Napoleon’s coronation, Yates took cues from Jacques-Louis David’s famous 1807 painting about the event. “We copied it as verbatim as we could,” she says.

Looking like a plump old Napoleon, Art Expert Andre Schoeller sat where everyone could see him, just below the auctioneer’s dais. On the block were oils by Degas, Pissarro, Braque, Modigliani ...

For Napoleon’s coronation, Yates took cues from Jacques-Louis David’s famous 1807 painting about the event. “We copied it as verbatim as we could,” she says.

In the week one of Napoleon's iconic bicorne hats sold at auction for $2.1 million, we're ranking five of art history's best hats.

I'm a little slow to news that the Louvre have co-published and released a new book on the Italian Paintings in the Musée ...