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The painting depicts a (probably invented) episode in the life of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus, taken from the Augustan History. Although the Latin refers to "violets and other flowers", Alma-Tadema depicts Elagabalus smothering his unsuspecting guests with rose petals released from a false ceiling. The original ...
Laurence Alma-Tadema CBE (August 1865 – 12 March 1940), born Laurense Tadema, was a British writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked in many genres. [ 1 ] Early life
Alma-Tadema's birth house and statue in Dronryp, Netherlands. Alma-Tadema was born on 8 January 1836 in the village of Dronryp in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands. [2] The surname Tadema is an old Frisian patronymic, meaning 'son of Tade', while the names Lourens and Alma came from his godfather. [3]
The vast majority of Godward's extant images feature women in Classical dress posed against landscape features, although there are some semi-nude and fully nude figures included in his oeuvre, a notable example being In The Tepidarium (1913), a title shared with a controversial Alma-Tadema painting of the same subject that resides in the Lady ...
Alma-Tadema worked on the painting for four years. It was completed in late 1894, and bought by the German banker Robert von Mendelssohn . It was exhibited at the 1895 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, at the 1899 Große Berliner Kunstausstellung in Berlin, and at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. It was a commercial success for Alma ...
Laura Theresa, Lady Alma-Tadema (née Epps; 16 April 1852 – 15 August 1909) was a British painter specialising in domestic and genre scenes of women and children. Eighteen of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy. Her husband, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, was one of the most prominent Victorian painters.
A dedication to Bacchus, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Oil on Canvas, 1889, which featured on the cover of Barrow's book on the artist. Rosemary Julia Barrow (9 April 1968 – 21 September 2016) was a Welsh art historian who specialised in classical themes in Victorian art and the painting of Lawrence Alma-Tadema in particular, whose reputation she attempted to restore.
Alma-Tadema is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912), Dutch painter; Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852–1909), English painter and second wife of Sir Lawrence; Laurence Alma-Tadema (1865–1940), novelist and poet; Sir Lawrence's first daughter