Napoleón y el espejo de la Antigüedad

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"During Napoleon's astounding accession to power, the artists in his entourage developed a visual narrative inspired by Roman iconography to reinforce the image of an undefeated military hero favoured by Fortune ... Emperor Bonaparte titled his new-born son King of Rome, recalling the legendary figure of Romulus and the greatness of the Rex Romanorum, which preceded the Germanic emperorship. During this period Antiquity became a splendid mirror that magnified Napoleon's heroic deeds. The visual rhetoric of power in Napoleon's court reached its peak with the Europe Romanticism, when new artists and writers depicted Napoleon as the ultimate tragic hero comparable only to Alexander the Great or Caesar"--