Antonio Canova's Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker and the Limits of Imperial Portraiture
David P. O'Brien
Through an examination Antonio Canova's Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (1806), this essay explores contradictions in Napoleon's ambitions for art well conflicts between leading aesthetic doctrines and requirements of Napoleonic propaganda. While prestige artist attracted attention his artistic advisers, autonomy refined nature work made him unsuitable a propagandist. The history points to emerging separation aims artists demands official
French History