Napoleon’s Power

David Conradsen, assistant curator of decorative arts at the Saint Louis Art Museum, looks at a large porcelain vase included in a new exhibition at the museum called "Symbols of Power: Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style, 1800-1815" June 13, 2007, in St. Louis. The show runs in St. Louis through Sept. 16, before heading to Boston and then Paris. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)