''Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker'' is a bronze cast of the marble sculpture of the same name by Antonio Canova. It was commissioned from Canova in spring 1807 by Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier, French ambassador to Rome, commissioned it from Canova for 5,000

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as a gift to Eugene de Beauharnais, viceroy of the

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. It was cast in 1811 and De Beauharnais sent it to Milan in May 1812, but the city found it difficult to find a site for it. It was finally moved to its present site in the main courtyard of the Palazzo di Brera (now the

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and inaugurated there on 14 August 1859 during

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's visit.Stefano Biolchini, "Napoleone riconquista la posizione d’onore a Brera", in ''ilSole24ore'', 1 October 2014 (Italian)

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