Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps is one of the most famous and politically iconic images of European art history. However, it is a deepfake.

The figure of Napoleon has long been an object of fascination, but the new Ridley Scott biopic makes one wonder why. The film, perhaps inadvertently, partakes of the spirit of the times. The ...

it pays homage to Iowa’s French past and recalls the French revolutionary tricolor created in 1794 by Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon’s favorite painter and chief propaganda artist. More ...