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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.
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- 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.
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Virtual Tour Discussion: Louvre Museum: The Coronation of Napoleon
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1. What elements of the image are fiction? Discuss specific details, give examples.
First of all, fiction basically refers to something that is not real or something that would not be
approved by the general public in the real world. For example, a novel about fairy tales or
television films showing a world run by robots is all fiction. Fiction is, therefore, something that
cannot be real whether physically or emotionally. From the image, therefore, some of the
elements that are fiction include the setting and the character in the image. First of all, the green
carpet seems to be inviting the viewer to be part of the coronation process while in the real sense,
only important people attended such ceremonies. According to Groseclose (2018), important
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