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At the gates of Cairo, on July 21, 1798, the French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte (Ajaccio, 1769 - St. Helena, 1821) came into conflict with the Mamluk troops in what would go down in history as the Battle of the Pyramids, an episode that…
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On June 18, 1815, Napoleon was defeated by the Duke of Wellington at the end of a fierce confrontation that pitted France against the Seventh Coalition. In history, the Battle of Waterloo is considered one of the watershed events between…
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Luca Nannipieri 's new book entitled Immortal Candor, published by Rizzoli, was released in bookstores today. Two great figures of history are the cornerstones of this novel: Napoleon Bonaparte and Antonio Canova. The book alternates the…
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On the occasion of the celebrations of the seven hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri and the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, the online channel of the Brera Art Gallery BreraPLUS+ presents on…
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To mark the bicentenary of Napoleon's death, the Carlo Orsi Gallery in Milan is hosting the exhibition Napoleon and Milan. Between Reality and Myth - The Image of Napoleon from Liberator to Emperor, a set of works celebrating the figure of…
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Napoleon Last Act. Exile, Death, Memory is the exhibition that the Napoleonic Museum in Rome is dedicating, from May 5, 2021 to January 9, 2022, to the extreme moments of Napoleon Bonaparte's epic deeds, illustrating the events of the…
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Opening today, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's death, is the exhibition Napoleon's Milan. A Workshop of Revolutionary Ideas 1796-1821 at the Braidense National Library, curated by Giorgio Panizza and Giulia Raboni…
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As was announced in March, an exhibition on Napoleon will soon arrive on theisland of Elba: it will be one of the first stages of the Uffizi diffuse program and will have at its center a selection of works from the Galleries, as well as…
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