The Napoleonic Museum In Rome, Italy Editorial Photo

Room VIII - Myth and Satire in the Napoleonic Museum in Rome Italy. The room contains various important testimonies of the vitality of the Napoleonic myth in the years of the mid-XIXth century, including images in the popular press. In the years after his fall and death, Napoleon became an important figure in the French and European collective imaginations. The Napoleonic Museum hosts Napoleonic paintings and heirlooms donated to the city of Rome by Count Giuseppe Primoli, the Emperor’s grandson.