I ritratti di Napoleone dipinti da Andrea Appiani: un inedito e alcune precisazioni
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Leone, Francesco
- Source
- MDCCC 1800, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp - (2023)
- Subject
- Andrea Appiani. Antoine-Jean Gros. Empire. Giuseppe Bossi. Jacques-Louis David. Milan. Napoleon. Neoclassicism. Portrait
History of the arts
NX440-632
1789-
D299-475
- Language
- English
Spanish; Castilian
French
Italian
- ISSN
- 2280-8841
Andrea Appiani (1754‑1817) was the inventor of Napoleon’s iconography in Italy, whose myth he shaped through the portraits he dedicated to him. These paintings show the different iconographic approaches that Bonaparte gave to his image over time. This essay compares the well-known portraits of Napoleon painted by Appiani with a significant unpublished canvas, setting out specific circumstances and dates from archival documents and ancient sources beneath the lens of previous bibliography.