The coronation of Napoleon is a painting started in and finished in 1087 by the French Jacques-Louis David, who lived between 1749 and 1825, and was the personal painter of Napoleon the first, Emperor of France.
I saw this painting for the first time when I was ten years in a history book of the Napoleonic Wars.
I like this picture because it shows all the glory of Napoleon at the time of maximum power, when the Napoleonic empire extended from Portugal to the Russian steppes, and from the North Sea to southern Italy.
In the painting you can see the moment when Napoleon crown his wife Josephine as Empress of France, then crown himself humiliated at the same pope who had travelled from Rome to Paris for the ceremony.
The coronation took place at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, 2 march, 1804.
Very interesting choice! Thanks for writing about this.
ResponderEliminara correction:
In the painting you can see the moment when Napoleon crowns* his wife Josephine as Empress of France, then crowns* himself, *thus humiliating the pope* who had traveled from Rome to Paris for the ceremony.