Detail from An allegory of sculpture and architecture by Thomas Germain Joseph Duvivier
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Eustache Le Sueur (French, 1616-1655) • Meekness • 1650 • Art Institute of Chicago
Eustache Le Sueur painted the eight Beatitudes, the ideal qualities Jesus identified in his Sermon on the Mount in the Bible, for the private chapel in his patron Guillaume Birssonnet’s Paris home. This personification of meekness was part of that decoration and accompanied an altarpiece of the Annunciation, monochrome scenes of the life of the Virgin Mary, and a ceiling depicting her Assumption. The Beatitudes, with their patterned gold ground, lined the lower story of this elegant ensemble. Only the Annunciation altarpiece and two of the Beatitudes survive.
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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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José Garnelo y Alda (Spanish, 1866-1944)
Hércules, Dejanira y el centauro Neso, late 1800s
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
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An allegory of sculpture and architecture by Thomas Germain Joseph Duvivier
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