Napoleon conquers Harder Hall
05/03/2009
The Foundations Class 2009 collaborated this year on recreating the 1801 "neo-classic" painting "Napoleon at the Saint Bernard Pass," also known as "Napoleon Crossing the Alps," by Jacques-Louis David.
First-year BFA students worked on their own spaces of the 108-segment recreation without knowing what the final product would be. The recreation is 16 feet by 22 feet, dwarfing the roughly 7-by-8-foot original.
The original painting was created to commemorate French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's 1800 victory over Austria at the Battle of Marengo during the Napoleonic wars.
