Napoleon ostentatiously touches a plague victim in this detail of a painting copied from Antoine-Jean Gros. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Think President Trump is great at spinning plague propaganda?

In Impromptus today, I begin with Trump and his latest, or some of his latest. I continue with Giuliani, China, golf, and other matters. I end with Napoleon. There is a movie out, as you may know. And ...

As a scandalous image of shameless masculine power and sensual strength, Thomas Lawrence’s spectacular painting Satan Summoning his Legions seemed to be a subversive advertisement for the libertine ...

A hand-coloured etching, published in 1803, shows Napoleon "Little Boney" in the hand of King George II. Photo: AFP Published in 1808, "The Corsican spider in his web" by Thomas Rowlandson is one of ...

“Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant” (“Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salut you”) distributed by Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office in Italy in 1942; Franklin D.

NEW YORK – A French masterpiece has come to New York for the first time ever, and has been greeted with a curious silence. It’s Jacques-Louis David’s “Bonaparte Crossing the Alps,” from 1801, and you ...

Katherine Astbury receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a project on French Theatre of the Napoleonic Era. When Napoleon escaped from exile and returned to Paris on March ...