Staging Empire
Napoleon Bonaparte conquered France and Europe in the name of liberté, égalité, et fraternité, but he suppressed freedom to achieve his aims. This was the birth of modern empire, and France’s greatest artists were enlisted for the cause. Staging Empire focuses on two landmark paintings that celebrated Napoleon’s coronation: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne (1806) and Jacques-Louis David’s Le Sacre (1805–7). In an unprecedented collaboration, two scholars...
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Contents\ List of Illustrations\ Acknowledgments\ Part I: Introduction\ Prologue: A King Listens\ Italo Calvino\ 1. Staging an Empire\ Susan L. Siegfried\ Part II: Ingres’s Portrait of Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne\ Susan L. Siegfried\ 2. The Painting\ 3. Patronage\ 4. The Critics\ Part III: David’s Sacre\ Todd Porterfield\ 5. Patterns of Reception\ 6. Fabulous Retroactivity\ 7. Makeup and Shopping\ Part IV: Epilogue\ Todd Porterfield\ 8. Epilogue\ Appendixes\ A. “Interior. Paris, 11 frimaire,” Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 72, Monday, 12 frimaire an 13 de la République [December 3, 1804]\ B. “Variety,” Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 76, Friday, 16 frimaire an 13 de la République [December 7, 1804]\ C. “Interior. Paris, January 15,” Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 16, Saturday, January 16, 1808\ D. Arlequin at the Museum, or a vaudeville critique of the paintings exhibited at the Salon. Twelfth year, no. 2 (Paris: Brasseur aîné, 1808): 3–8.\ Bibliography\ Index\ List of Illustrations\ Photograph Credits
\ From the Publisher“Some of the best art history I’ve read in a long time.”\ —Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University\ \ \
