On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, opens at Napoleonic Museum of Rome – which preserves a nucleus of materials of important historical value, never presented in its entirety, linked to events of the emperor’s exile and death in Sant’Elena as well as those concerning the return of his remains to Paris in 1840 – the exhibition ‘Napoleon, last act: exile, death, memory’, which will remain open until 9 January next year.
The exhibition, curated by Elena Camilli Giammei, is promoted by Roma Culture, the Capitoline Superintendence for Cultural Heritage. Organization of Zetema Progetto Cultura. On the occasion of the exhibition, the Friends of the Museums of Rome association financed the conservation maintenance intervention of the series of lithographs depicting the return of the ashes of Napoleon in Paris in 1840, the fulcrum of the concluding section.
The exhibition, the organizers explain, “illustrates the epilogue of Napoleonic parable through an evocative visual story, constructed through a rich iconographic corpus of prints, paintings and sculptural and numismatic effigies “. The exhibition itinerary, which consists of 85 pieces, is divided into four sections: Sant’Elena, the last island; relics from exile; ‘Il n’est plus’; the return of the ashes to Paris in 1840. The selected material comes entirely from the collections of the Napoleonic Museum.