1834
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Mask of Napoleon is a 1834 by Luigi Calamatta, a Romanticism work, depicting Napoleon, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a wax mask of Napoleon with a bronze crown on its head. The mask looks heavy and cold. Light hits its surface in sharp spots. Calamatta copied the mask from Napoleon’s death mask. He worked in Rome in 1834. The face shows small wrinkles and a faint scar above the lip. The mask feels like a ghost from history. Look it up at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Luigi Calamatta, also known as Louis Antoine Joseph Calamatta (21 June 1801 – 8 March 1869) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born at Civitavecchia, in the Papal States and died in Milan.
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