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Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker is a bronze cast ofthe marble sculpture of the same name byAntonio Canova. It was commissioned from Canova in spring 1807 byCharles-Jean-Marie Alquier, French ambassador to Rome, commissioned it from Canova for 5,000Louis as a gift toEugene de Beauharnais, viceroy of theKingdom of Italy. 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 thePinacoteca di Brera and inaugurated there on 14 August 1859 duringNapoleon III's visit.[1][2]
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