Title Information
Title
Allégorie de la guerre d'Italie
Title Information: uniform
Title
Illustration (Paris, France)
Name: Personal
Name Part
Giacomelli
Role
Role Term: Text
artist
Type of Resource
still image
Genre (aat)
engravings (prints)
Origin Information
Place
Place Term: Code (MARC Country Code)
fr
Place Term: Text
Paris
Publisher
Illustration
Date Issued (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes", qualifier="inferred")
1859
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
fre
Physical Description
Extent
1 engraving; 38 x 26.9 cm.
digitalOrigin
reformatted digital
Abstract
The artist Giacomelli presented to Emperor Napoleon III an album of eighteen watercolors after the Italian War of 1859. The allegorical frontispiece of the album is reproduced here. An accompanying newspaper article provided this explanantion of the allegory: "Napoleon III, in the middle of the composition, is crowned by Victory while Fame sounds a trumpet. To the [right] of the Emperor, Hope leads the cities that have not yet been liberated: Parma, Modena, Florence, and Bologna. The second group on the same side represents Sicily who awakens, Naples who sleeps, and Rome who lies in shadow. Below are the spirits of Discord. On the [left] of the Emperor, Piedmont gives her hand to Lombardy, who sadly shows her sister Venice whose provinces are still in chains."
Note
From the collection of David I. Kertzer
Subject
Topic
Symbolism in art
Subject
Name: Personal
Name Part
Napoleon
Name Part: Date
1808-1873
Name Part: Terms of Address
III, Emperor of the French
Related Item: Host (displayLabel="Collection:")
Title Information
Title
Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
Identifier: COLID
38
Identifier: URI
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/garibaldi
Identifier: METSID
1204928238984375
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