1. A picture is worth a thousand words What we can learn from pictures of Napoleon

2. “Bonaparte at the Arcole Bridge” Baron Antoine-Jean Gros - 1798 Napoléon crossed a bridge under enemy fire at the head of his men to help win the battle of Arcole, one of the most significant of his First Italian Campaign. Gros’ famous painting of the young commander became an icon of his military mastery. Lithograph engraving. First print.

3. GROS Antoine-Jean (Baron) (1771-1835) Bonaparte visiting the plague victims of Jaffa, 11 March, 1799 Paris, Musée du Louvre

4. “First Consul Bonaparte” Baron Antoine-Jean Gros c. 1802 As First Consul, Napoléon distinguished himself from the other two, Jean Jacques Cambacérès and Charles François Lebrun, by dressing in red, while they dressed in blue. Napoléon commissioned Gros to paint his official portrait as First Consul, as well as a series of copies intended as gifts for friends or to be sent to specific towns to commemorate his latest successes.

5. DAVID Jacques Louis (1748-1825)The First Consul crossing the Alps at the Grand-Saint- Bernard pass Musée National du Château de Malmaison In reality, Napoleon crossed the Alps on a donkey.

6. “Napoleon Before the Sphinx” by Jean-Leon Gerome (1868)

7. “Bonaparte Visiting the Silk Manufacturers of Rouen” Jean-Baptiste Isabey - 1802

8. DAVID Jacques Louis (1748-1825) Napoleon in his study in the Tuileries Palace Washington, National Gallery of Art Note the candle, papers on the desk and time on the clock.

9. Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine - 1807 (both pictures) ‏ The interior of Notre Dame Cathedral, where Napoleon crowned himself Napoleon I in 1804.

10. “Colossal Bust of Napoléon” Antonio Canova - c. 1810 In 1802, Napoléon brought Italian neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova to Paris to model his portrait in marble. Canova carved the Colossal Bust as a study for a monumental, full-length statue, Napoléon as Mars the Peacemaker.

11. “Napoléon I in Coronation Robe” Gobelins, after François Gérard - 1812

12. SOURCES: 1)http://www.napoleonexhibit.com 2)http://www.napoleon.org/en/essential_napoleon/key_p ainting/premier_empire.asp