Word: napoleonism
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...from the Badia? Vasari had described such a work on the high altar. Later cleaning proved Procacci's hunch correct; handwriting analysis narrowed the date of the sticker to about 1810. Procacci was then able to reconstruct what had happened: the altarpiece had been removed in 1810 by Napoleon's troops from the Badia; then in 1815, through a clerical mistake, it had been returned instead to Santa Croce. Digging through the old floor plans of the Badia, Procacci made a second discovery. The church had been rebuilt in 1628, with new interior walls set inside the structure...
Captain Frans Banning Cocq's watchmen? Rembrandt's Nightwatch is all we know of them. Napoleon's coronation? Jacques Louis David's massive painting is the permanent report. French firing squads at work in Spain in 1808? Goya's painting, both witness and indictment, has fixed the image for all time. The court of Philip of Spain? On courtesans, and dwarf retainers, Velasquez has the final word. And so it has always been the artist's task to report on the figures and events of his day, whether it be the hanging...
...with nothing worse than burned hands. Bellinger, riding shotgun overhead, drove off a nearby North Vietnamese fishing junk; minutes later, a rescue helicopter ferried Adams to his carrier, the U.S.S. Oriskany, where squadron 162 ("The Hunters") greeted him with a paper missile and a 2-oz. glass of Napoleon brandy, a cherished ritual after a particularly hazardous mission. To his parents in Minneapolis, Adams sent a laconic wire: "Unscheduled swim. Everything...
...been rescued so close to North Viet Nam's main population center. Four and a half hours after takeoff, Adams-fondly nicknamed "Bulb" because of his prematurely receding hairline-was back aboard the Oriskany. Squadron 162 greeted him with pistols raised in mock salute-and two ounces of Napoleon brandy. To Minneapolis, Adams wired: "Would you believe it? I did it again...
...TIME'S reference to a Napoleonic parallel involving Charles de Gaulle [July 1] is intriguing. On June 25, 1807, almost 159 years ago to the day that De Gaulle met with the chiefs of the Soviet government, Czar Alexander I of Russia met with Emperor Napoleon of France at Tilsit in Prussia. They embraced; they exchanged decorations and pledges of friendship. Like De Gaulle, Alexander hoped to play the role of peacemaker and to divide the European continent between Russia and France. Yet by 1812 the Emperor was sleeping in the Kremlin in a burning Moscow. I wonder whether...