Napoleon, Legends.
Silvana Editorial| N° d'inventaire | 24014 |
| Format | 22 x 28 |
| Détails | 456 p., 480 ill., paperback. |
| Publication | Milan, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9788836649105 |
There is more than one legend of Napoleon. The first, and perhaps the strongest of them all, was forged during his lifetime by Bonaparte, the First Consul, and the Emperor. The second came later, after the fall of the Empire and Napoleon's death on St. Helena; it immediately emerged as a polymorphous phenomenon that asserted itself and grew thanks to the political context of the Restoration and, at the same time, owed part of its growth to the emergence of the European Romantic movement.
Conveyed by images, stories, theater, songs, seditious objects – and soon cinema – the Napoleonic legend was initially popular; but by crossing paths with Romanticism, it rose to the highest peaks of literature and art, from where it influenced the political destiny of France. It imposed the return to Paris of the hero's ashes, then facilitated the reconquest of power by Bonaparte's heir, Napoleon III.
In 2021, as we commemorate, two hundred years later, the death of Napoleon on Saint Helena, the exhibition at the Palais Fesch and the accompanying catalogue look beyond the event to tell the public and readers about the second life of the first Emperor of the French.
Exhibition catalog, Ajaccio, Palais Fesch, July - October 2021.
There is more than one legend of Napoleon. The first, and perhaps the strongest of them all, was forged during his lifetime by Bonaparte, the First Consul, and the Emperor. The second came later, after the fall of the Empire and Napoleon's death on St. Helena; it immediately emerged as a polymorphous phenomenon that asserted itself and grew thanks to the political context of the Restoration and, at the same time, owed part of its growth to the emergence of the European Romantic movement.
Conveyed by images, stories, theater, songs, seditious objects – and soon cinema – the Napoleonic legend was initially popular; but by crossing paths with Romanticism, it rose to the highest peaks of literature and art, from where it influenced the political destiny of France. It imposed the return to Paris of the hero's ashes, then facilitated the reconquest of power by Bonaparte's heir, Napoleon III.
In 2021, as we commemorate, two hundred years later, the death of Napoleon on Saint Helena, the exhibition at the Palais Fesch and the accompanying catalogue look beyond the event to tell the public and readers about the second life of the first Emperor of the French.
Exhibition catalog, Ajaccio, Palais Fesch, July - October 2021.