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Le blog d'une simple étudiante parisienne en Histoire de l'Art passionée par l'épopée Napoléonienne avec l'Histoire comme seule religion.    "The world is a stage but the play is badly cast " Oscar Wilde  

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Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948-) Napoleon Bonaparte And The Duke Of Wellington 1994 (42 by 54,6 cm) gelatin silver print

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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, daughter of Nicholas II, posing in formal court dress, 1913

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Dated: 1560

The #dagger that belonged to Grand Master de la Valette is to be brought to Malta on loan from the Louvre for a #Heritage #Malta exhibition coinciding with Malta’s EU Presidency.

The dagger, together with a sword, had been presented to the grand master by King Philip II of Spain after the victory of the Great Siege.  

Heritage Malta said the dagger and the sword, originally kept at the Grand Master’s Palace, were shown to the public once a year in a procession held on September 8 to mark the day when the Great Siege (1565) was lifted.

This tradition was held till 1797, since a year later the Maltese islands were occupied by French General Napoleon Bonaparte.

“Napoleon was very fond of military leaders, including de Valette. His ambition was to furnish a museum with possessions from conquered states. But while the sword was sent to the museum in France along with other artefacts, Napoleon decided to keep the dagger to himself. In fact after Bonaparte’s death the dagger was put on exhibit together with the sword at the Louvre,” Heritage Malta said.

The exhibition de Valette’s dagger will be held at the National Museum of Archaeology from March 18 till the end of June 2017. The dagger, which will be the main focus of the exhibition, will be accompanied by a selected number of other related exhibits from the national collection.

@art-of-swords what do you think of this?

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Marlon Brando & Rita Moreno <3 

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Vittorio Corcos | La contessa Carolina Sommaruga Maraini (detail) | 1901

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Sketchdaily: March 20 1815 Napoleon enters Paris.

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Napoleon models the spring collection of fighting Emperor wear of  1810.

Very fetching.

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Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich in two different costumes for the theatrical play “King of the Jews”, written and orchestrated by his father, Grand Duke Konstantin “KR” Konstantinovich.

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KINSON François Joseph (1771-1839) RUOTTE Louis Charles (1754-1806)  Jérôme Bonaparte, roi de Hollande 1808-1813 Gravure 56, 1 x 41, 8 cm Münster, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Photo (c) LWL museum 

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ROUGET Georges ( 1783-1869) Napoléon Ier  Collection Rouget  Photo (c) Bourguignon 

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Lorenzo Ghiberti, Gates of Paradise (East Doors) for the Baptistery of San Giovanni (Florence, Italy), 1425-52

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Silver & Gold plated Bronze Dagger

Dated: mid-19th century

Culture: French

Medium: bronze, silver, gold

The dagger has a straight, double-edged blade with a double groove and a bronze grip and sheath that is silver-coated and partly gilded. The grip depicts a girl playing the lyre while the sheath is worked in bas-relief with two grotesque masks in the center and arm trophies and flags above and under. The dagger has curved and curled small quillons.

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Anton Graff. Frederick II ‘the Great’ of Prussia. 1764.

Oil on canvas.

Schloss Sanssouci. Potsdam, Germany.

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this is from a childrens tv show.

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FABISCH, Joseph-Hugues Beatrice 1855 Marble, heuight 183 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon

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Harvey Keitel, last scene from The Duellists (1977)