(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 05 - The symbolic charm of numerous "contact relics", from the precious snuffboxes to the social games, from the volumes from the library to the refined fabrics and clothing used daily by the Emperor, now defeated, in the extreme stretch of its earthly existence; up to the funerary mask from the cast of the face taken by the doctor Antonmarchi immediately after his death. A contemplative, nostalgic Napoleon, certainly more "human", is the one returned by the exhibition "Napoleon last act. Exile, death, memory" hosted at the Napoleonic Museum in Rome from May 5, the day in which the two hundred years since his death are celebrated. 1821, as of January 9, 2022.
Curated by Elena Camilli Giammei, the exhibition, divided into four sections, is built around an evocative visual story, which winds along an iconographic corpus of sculptural and numismatic prints, paintings and effigies, for a total of 85 pieces. The aim is to shed light on the epilogue of Napoleon Bonaparte's political and human experience, representing the years of exile on the Island of Sant'Elena until his death, a period in which the leader turned in on himself, dedicating himself to the of which he is present in the exhibition - and the transmission of his memory, a theme that is also addressed with a series of documents and volumes.
"This exhibition is dedicated to the extreme years of Napoleon.
We return a different image by privileging the more human aspects ", the curator Elena Camilli Giammei explains to ANSA," in the path there is also an immersive environment with objects used by Napoleon on a daily basis, which carry the suggestion of physical contact and to which he attributed a strong symbolic meaning, enough to express the will, then disregarded, to hand them over to the son ". (ANSA).