301. Buying Bonaparte.
- Author
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Jenkins, Susan
- Abstract
The article discusses the story behind the purchase of Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova's marble statue "Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker" by the British government in 1816. The negotiations for the purchase of the marble statue began following the signing of the Second Treaty of Paris on November 20, 1815. The article mentions that the purchase negotiations resulted to a series of diplomatic manoeuvring between Great Britain, France and the Papal States for France to regain the ancient statue "Allegory of the River Nile."
- Published
- 2010