Search results : (42 results)
-
In picturesCoronation of Emperor Napoleon I and crowning of the Empress Josephine in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris on 2 December 1804. (detail)
Commissioned by Napoleon I for the Salle des Gardes of the Tuileries Palace. Exhibited at the Salon of 1808. Here in this picture can be seen portraits of Pius VII, Charles Le Brun, the Duc de Cambacérès, Berthier, Eugène de Beauharnais, Caulaincourt, Bernadotte, Cardinal Fesch, Comte Estève, Comte d’Harville, Murat, Sérurier, Moncey, Bessières, Ségur, Belloy, […]
-
Place, museum or monumentToledo Museum of Art
Edward Libbey, the Boston glass-maker, relocated his business to Toledobecause there was good sand available for making glass, cheap natural gas, and the location strategic to railroad and shipping. Libbey and his wife Florence Scott were the inspiration behind the birth of this museum of art at the turn of the century. Their separate endowments […]