#napoleon as mars the peacemaker
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empirearchives · 1 year ago
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“What Napoleon criticised in the statue could perhaps be summed up in one thing: his uneasiness at the sight of his own nudity. And it was precisely his nudity that was felt to be problematic, even shocking. But how did Canova come to have the odd idea of representing Napoleon as a nude divinity?”
— Valérie Huet, Napoleon I: A New Augustus?
The nude statue of Napoleon in question:
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monimarat · 1 year ago
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Maxime and Napoleon in Milan
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kaxenart · 2 years ago
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@usergreenpixel replied to your post “For the purposes of suggestions, I do consider...”:
Eugene de Beauharnais!
​We always talk about how Wellington has Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, but Eugene bought one of the plasters.
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eunikia · 1 year ago
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Antonio Canova, Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, Wellington Museum (Apsley House), London
I'm speechless...
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ic-napology · 2 years ago
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Here you go:
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napoleon buttocks
murat has COMPETITION
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escapismsworld · 1 year ago
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Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, Antonio Canova
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napoleonbonaparte4ever · 1 year ago
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Napoleon Bonaparte... The rightful owner of all women's hearts!
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beautyofaphrodite · 4 months ago
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Venus Victrix
So lately I’ve been making posts on artwork featuring Lady Aphrodite or Lady Venus (they’re often depicted the same). So far, I’ve covered two paintings titled The Birth of Venus, the ones by Botticelli and Cabanel. Today, we have a statue titled Venus Victrix by Antonio Canova. Please let me know your favorite artistic depictions of Lady Aphrodite or Venus if you’d like me to cover them!
Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova was an Italian sculptor born November 1, 1757 in the Republic of Venice, and died on October 13, 1822 in Lombardy-Venetia. He was often regarded as one of the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, and was famous for his marble statues such as Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, The Three Graces, Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, Venus Victrix, and George Washington.
Description of the Statue
Venus lays on a sort of bed, nude with some sort of fabric covering her bottom half. She holds an apple, alluding to the judgement of Paris. The goddess’s appearance is modeled after Pauline Bonaparte, an imperial French princess and sister to Napoleon.
About the Statue
The Venus Victrix was created from 1805-1808 out of white marble. It was commissioned by the model’s husband right after their marriage. It is now displayed in the Galleria Borghese, in Rome, Italy.
Fun Facts
- Canova was originally commissioned to paint Bonaparte fully clothed as the virgin goddess Diana, but the model objected, saying nobody would believe she’s a virgin.
-There is debate on whether or not Bonaparte actually posed nude, and she responded saying she did but it wasn’t a problem as Antonio Canova wasn’t “a real man” and it was too hot in the room to wear clothes. This could have been a way to “stir things up”, as she often liked to do
- Pauline Bonaparte was said to be related to Venus through her son, Aeneas
- The statue originally had a mechanism in the base that would rotate it so someone could see all angles of it without moving
- In 2020, a tourist broke off some of the toes by sitting on the statue while posing for a selfie
I hope you learned something, I certainly did! This is a beautiful statue, and there were some very interesting things I didn’t know. Please, if you have any artwork of Lady Aphrodite (or Venus) you would like me to cover, please let me know. Love y’all 🫶 /p
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empirearchives · 2 years ago
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It will always be funny to me that Napoleon was mad that Canova depicted him like this:
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Like anyone else would be flattered, but he was embarrassed
Reasons Napoleon Has Complained About Artists (that I am aware of)
Lejeune: drew a shitpost about looting instead of…. y’know… stopping looting.
Canova: sculpted him naked with unbelievable abs 
Isabey: leapfrogged on him
……now I need to hunt down more stupid anecdotes. My favorite type of anecdote. 
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liammeoww · 3 months ago
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It looked better in my imagination, lol💀
Anyways, here is Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (I did NOT bother drawing the thing thats on the ball that he holds in his hand, hell naw)
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lux-vitae · 2 years ago
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Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker by Antonio Canova (c. 1802-06)
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trashpoppaea · 2 years ago
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what @clove-pinks​ said. Also this is worth posting here in its entirety:
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(paging @thiswaycomessomethingwicked​)
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Sorry I wasn't listening to you, I was thinking about the Duke of Wellington's personal 11-foot-tall statue of nude, totally jacked Napoleon.
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Twitter thread! (and yes Kate Beaton's "Nemesis" comic comes up)
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fruityyamenrunner · 5 months ago
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Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker is a colossal heroic nude statue by the Italian artist Antonio Canova, of Napoleon I of France in the guise of the Roman god Mars. He holds a gilded Nike or Victory standing on an orb in his right hand and a staff in his left. It was produced between 1802 and 1806 and stands 3.45 metres to the raised left hand. Once on display in the Louvre in Paris, it was purchased from Louis XVIII in 1816 by the British government, which granted it to the Duke of Wellington.
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ratt-fried-this-pasta · 2 years ago
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i dont know where it is but that one post about Napoleon seeing the state of him as Mars the Peacemaker and just being like "omg no DELETE that" lives rent free in my head
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graaaaceeliz · 1 year ago
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Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, by request
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I apologise for his blurry face, the light was awkward, bur there's an excellent photo of his backside to make up for it. Napoleon knew nobody would buy that he actually looked like this and so had the statue covered up and hidden away.
I went to Apsley House today, which is where Wellington lived in London after the wars! There's too many photos to send you, but highlights include the naked Napoleon statue which is too big to go anywhere but the stairwell, the truly ridiculous amount of gold/gold plated crockery, several busts of his descendents easily recognisable by The Nose,..... I can go on. I've condensed it down into this bust ft. The Nose (Hugh Fraser really did bear a startling resemblance) and the boss of the Waterloo Shield.
Photos of Napoleon available on request. I just think that's a slightly strange thing to chuck into someone's inbox, sharpe obsession or not.
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Yes, thank you, unsolicited photos of Wellington ephemera are indeed welcome in this house. That boss is SICK, god, imagine that just being a thing you own. And a giant statue of yourself naked, I mean, is there really any better power move when having guests over? Ultimate icebreaker. You know that place is Known among the Doordash folks.
Also, I feel like I heard lore somewhere--maybe History Hack?-- that at some memorial there's a statue of Wellington that they modeled off Hugh Fraser. I almost want to say it's Waterloo but I feel in my heart that can't be right. Anybody know?
Seeing Hugh Fraser as angsty Wellington after watching him as affable Cpt Hastings in Poirot is such a great trip, I keep wanting him to say "...good lord" like he does with David Suchet, but no, he's all "I'd rather have the surgeon saw off my goddamn foot."
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Anyway, thank you for the photos!
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kaxenart · 4 years ago
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When you think an artist is gonna sculpt you in some actual clothes, but then he gives you the body of a greco-roman god and you’re pretty sure everyone is gonna make fun of you for having it so you ban it from public view...
....but the artist does not care you don’t like it and makes plaster copies anyway. 
....and your step-son gets a plaster.
....and eventually Wellington gets the marble one.
...and there is a bronze version too 
Napoleon as Mars The Peacemaker is a good wikipedia article lol 
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