Napoleón; Francia; coronación; emperador; Carlomagno; Notre-Dame; París; David; Museo del Louvre; siglo XIX - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 14:38:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Napoleón; Francia; coronación; emperador; Carlomagno; Notre-Dame; París; David; Museo del Louvre; siglo XIX - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the coronation of the Empress Josephine on 2 December 1804 https://historylab.es/the-consecration-of-the-emperor-napoleon-and-the-coronation-of-the-empress-josephine-on-2-december-1804/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-consecration-of-the-emperor-napoleon-and-the-coronation-of-the-empress-josephine-on-2-december-1804 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-consagracion-del-emperador-napoleon-y-la-coronacion-de-la-emperatriz-josephine-en-2-de-diciembre-de-1804/ Interior scene by the Romantic painter David in the 19th century showing the coronation of Napoleon as the new Emperor

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]]> Jacques-Louis David was commissioned to represent the consecration of Napoleon, thus conveying the magnificence of the new emperor in an act with political features and a symbolic message. The work was commissioned orally in September 1804 and David was assisted by his pupil Rouget. The double victory in the Italian and Egyptian campaigns led Napoleon I to take power as first consul after the coup d’état of 18 Brumaire. In May 1804, he proclaimed himself emperor and was crowned in a ceremony on 2 December 1804 in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, securing his imperial legacy by his authority in the French monarchy and Catholicism. Thus, a similarity was even sought with Charlemagne’s coronation as emperor both in date (December 800) and in the presence of the pope. David’s inspiration led him to take Rubens’s coronation of Maria de Medici as his compositional inspiration.

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