Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825). Coronation of Empress Josephine by Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris, 2 December 1804 (1806–1807)

Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825). Coronation of Empress Josephine by Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris, 2 December 1804 (1806–1807)

" I was always hiding behind the instructor's chair, drawing for the duration of the class, " admitted Jacques-Louis David, acknowledging his early artistic bent (1). The orphaned son of a wealthy Paris family, David went on to study art, first under distant relative François Boucher, then under gifted teacher and rococo painter Joseph-Marie Vien. Later, in Italy for 5 years, David became engro...

Natural Lighting, Gilts and Polychromy of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral

Lighting either natural or not in the european medieval architecture (roman period) is studied and simulated around a special and famous example. "Notre-Dame de Paris" cathedral and its polychromy are studied for many years and, today the remains of polychromy are very reduced. This prestigious monument is then a unique opportunity to study the complex relationships between light, paint and gil...

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for the Sciences University of Notre Dame Inside : The Effect of Urbanization on Bird Foraging at Notre Dame

This study examines the effect of the performance of the Notre Dame football team on American Catholic church attendance. Using data taken from the General Social Survey across eleven recent years and the statistical package STATA, I regressed a myriad of variables on Catholic church attendance to explore the effect of Notre Dame football. After determining the relevance of a broad spectrum of ...

Louis Napoleon and His Doctors

? ho is remembered chiefly for the disasters of the Franco-German war and 0r his capture by the Germans at Sedan. Inevitably he has suffered by comj^rison with his famous uncle, the great Napoleon Bonaparte, and he has jj?1* dismissed as a weak and irresolute man of small capacity, and even sj!611 ^ubbed Napoleon the Little. To live in the shadow of genius is no easy Ration for any man, and Lou...