Napoleon ostentatiously touches a plague victim in this detail of a painting copied from Antoine-Jean Gros. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Think President Trump is great at spinning plague propaganda?

This exhibition focuses on the printed propaganda that either reviled or glorified Napoleon Bonaparte at the turn of the 19th century. It explores how his formidable career coincided with the peak of ...

As a scandalous image of shameless masculine power and sensual strength, Thomas Lawrence’s spectacular painting Satan Summoning his Legions seemed to be a subversive advertisement for the libertine ...

France has a lot of historic sites associated with Napoleon Bonaparte (as do other parts of the world), but a single myth has persisted throughout history about the former French emperor: He was short ...