Letizia

You were probably trying to go back to the main page, but you’re going to learn this fun tidbit instead!

In Jacques-Louis David’s The Coronation of Napoleon, Napoleon’s mother is seated in the Pope’s chair—even though she wasn’t actually at the coronation at all! Was she sick or out of the country? No! She chose not to attend because she was upset with Napoleon for not getting along with his brothers. But Napoleon still insisted on including her in the painting.