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Political Upheaval · 1804

Napoleon Crowned Emperor

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David's coronation painting exemplifies how Imperial Neoclassicism was deployed as propaganda, defining a model of state-controlled artistic grandeur that would directly influence totalitarian aesthetics a century later.

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Napoleon Crowned Emperor (1804) · Ellsworth