Sorry Philippe, but as an incorrigible Bonapartist, I cannot resist
Arco della Pace ("Arch of Peace"), Porta Sempione, Milan.
Comissioned by Napoleon I and the Milanese as the "Arch of Victory" in 1806-07, it was finished by the Austrian occupation ~1838 following Napoleon's fall in 1814; by 1859 after the liberation (with the help of Napoleon III) and the unification of Northern Italy, the arch received proper inscriptions refering to both Bonapartes. This is the southeastern façade.
Sorry Philippe, but as a Bonapartist, I cannot resist
Arco della Pace ("Arch of Peace"), Porta Sempione, Milan.
Comissioned by Napoleon I and the Milanese as the "Arch of Victory" in 1806-07, it was finished by the Austrian occupation ~1838 following Napoleon's fall in 1814; by 1859 after the liberation (with the help of Napoleon III) and the unification of Northern Italy, the arch received proper inscriptions refering to both Bonapartes. This is the southeastern façade.
Sorry Philippe, but as a Bonapartist, I cannot resist
Arco della Pace ("Arch of Peace"), Porta Sempione, Milan.
Comissioned by Napoleon I and the Milanese as the "Arch of Victory" in 1806-07, it was finished by the Austrian occupation following Napoleon's fall in 1814; by 1859 after the liberation (with the help of Napoleon III) and the unification of Northern Italy, the arch received proper inscriptions refering to both Bonapartes. This is the southeastern façade.
Sorry Philippe, but as a bonapartist, I cannot resist
Arco della Pace ("Arch of Peace"), Porta Sempione, Milan.
Comissioned by Napoleon I and the Milanese as the "Arch of Victory" in 1806-07, it was finished by the Austrian occupation following Napoleon's fall in 1814; by 1859 after the liberation (with the help of Napoleon III) and the unification of Northern Italy, the arch received proper inscriptions refering to both Bonapartes. This is the southeastern façade.
