ARTS202 University of Phoenix Louvre Museum Virtual Tour Discussion Virtual Tour: Louvre Museum, The Coronation of Napoleon JOURNAL PROMPT: Neo-classical

ARTS202 University of Phoenix Louvre Museum Virtual Tour Discussion Virtual Tour: Louvre Museum, The Coronation of Napoleon

JOURNAL PROMPT: Neo-classical artist, Jacques-Louis David once said: “What is fiction to the historian, is an incontestable fact for the painter or poet.” In his Coronation painting, David included untruthful elements to make a better story. Emperor Napoleon wanted this painting to send a message of a unified and perfect Empire.

Discuss the following in your entry – use examples and details. You can copy the sections below and answer beneath each section if that will help you stay organized.

What elements of the image are fiction? Discuss specific details, give examples.
Why would a political leader and an artist fabricate an event?
Relate it to our world: How and why do contemporary political leaders and artists/photographers/journalists manipulate images to communicate specific meanings – truthful or not? Use an example.
Cite an academic source (see VTJE general instructions). Use the library, find a scholarly article; no websites, no tour site, no textbook or Bible.

Link to tour in case above link doesn’t work:

http://musee.louvre.fr/oal/sacre/indexEN.html