Coronations
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Louis XIV in Coronation Robes
Painting (oil on canvas) · Hyacinthe Rigaud
Painted in 1701, Rigaud's official portrait of Louis XIV is the canonical image of European absolute monarchy at its rhetorical peak. Louis is dressed in the regalia of the coronation ceremony: the bl
Tristithea·5/28/2026
The Coronation of Napoleon
Painting (oil on canvas) · Jacques-Louis David
The painting is six metres by ten. It took David three years to finish. It is the most consequential single piece of imperial propaganda produced by any European regime between Napoleon and the First
great0506·5/16/2026
