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Palazzo Reale Milan, Piazza del Duomo, 12 Italy T:+39 02 884 45 181 link Opening hours Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-19:30, Thursday closing at 22:30. Last admission one hour before. Closed on Mondays. Tickets Full price € 14,00Reduced € 12,00Subscription Museums Lombardy € 10.00 also valid for Horticultural Members in possession of the card for the current yearSpecial reduced € […]

Full programme and how to attend or sign up  REGISTRATION is required by Sunday May 15. Please email ilya.berkovich@oeaw. ac.at indicating whether you wish to attend in person or online. The event on-site will be held in accordance with the Corona rules, in effect. Those attending online will receive a Zoom link on the morning […]

The symposium “Napoleon III and the Economy”, organised by the Banque de France, the Fondation Napoléon and the Sorbonne, will take place on 12 and 13 May 2022, in the auditorium of the Cité de l’Économie (Citéco). The number of available seats is limited to 50. Admission: 20€/person. Registrations from 15 March to 28 April 2022: […]

Here is the programme for spring-summer programme of talks (in French) from 5 April 5 to 21 June 2022: “Paris in the time of Napoleon”, by Irène Delage and Chantal Prévot; “Napoleon, the forgotten films”, by David Chanteranne; “Lucien Bonaparte, a Republican Prince”, by Cédric Lewandowski, Fondation Napoléon  Jury Prize winner in 2020; “The war […]

Conference schedule (pdf) The event is free but you must register in advance to attend this event online. Conference Organizers: Alexander Mikaberidze Professor of History, Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair Louisiana State University in Shreveport alexander.mikaberidze@lsus.edu Frederick C. Schneid Herman and Louise Smith Professor of History Chair, Department of History High Point University fschneid@highpoint.edu

Through the lens of his preparatory studies, the exhibition looks beyond his public successes to chart the moments of inspiration and the progress of ideas. Visitors will follow the artist’s process as he gave form to the neoclassical style and created major canvases that shaped the public’s perceptions of historical events in the years before, […]

A virtuosic and prolific artist in a class of his own, Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) was the enthusiastic chronicler of Parisian life for sixty years, spanning a period from one revolution to the dawn of the next (1789 and 1848). In addition to being a portraitist for the Parisians and a painter of city scenes, Boilly […]

The year 1809 saw the invasion of the Austrian Empire by the armies of Napoleonic France. On 13 May, a little over a month after the beginning of the campaign, Vienna was occupied by French troops for the second time since 1805. In the following months two major battles took place near the Habsburg capital: […]

On Napoleon.org, find out more about the painting “Allegory of the exile and death of Napoleon I on St Helena” or “Napoleon’s tomb” Presentation of the exhibition by the Wallace Collection Hertford, who lived in Paris near Vernet’s studio, acquired 46 paintings and eight watercolours by the artist with whom he seems to have been on […]