tostr_culturaltutor on Nostr: This portrait was made in the same year Napoleon commissioned the Arc de Triomphe. ...
This portrait was made in the same year Napoleon commissioned the Arc de Triomphe.
Wearing a laurel wreath like Julius Caesar and bearing the Scepter of Charlemagne, here was a man with megalomaniacal ambition.
A triumphal arch was only the next logical step... https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1627985859348766723/photo/1 (source: https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1627985859348766723)
Wearing a laurel wreath like Julius Caesar and bearing the Scepter of Charlemagne, here was a man with megalomaniacal ambition.
A triumphal arch was only the next logical step... https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1627985859348766723/photo/1 (source: https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1627985859348766723)