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Article: 2005: the year of the artist's muse.
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- April 1, 2005
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'Nelson--the National Hero', the loan exhibition at last month's British Antique Dealers' Association Fair in London, was a tempting preview of what will be on offer in the National Maritime Museum's exhibition 'Nelson & Napoleon', opening on 7 July. The exhibitions mark the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. That battle is the sort of victory that resonates even to those who are not British and may even resist the idea of commemorating battles at all, for it is both a moment of glory and of tragedy: Nelson the victor was killed in his moment of triumph. Moreover, as the Nelson scholar Colin White, a curator of 'Nelson & Napoleon', commented in his essay in ...
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