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The Women of Amphissa is an oil on canvas painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, made in 1887. It is held at the Clark Art Institute , in Williamstown . It depicts a group of maenads waking up in the market of Amphissa , after a night of debauchery.
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These women were supposed to be descendants of the women who sacrificed their son in the name of Dionysios. The priest would catch one of the women and execute her. This human sacrifice was later omitted from the festival. Eventually the women would be freed from the intense ecstatic experience of the festival and return to their usual lives.
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 A
Earlier 1635 painting with both Prince Charles and Prince James wearing skirts. In 1635 Van Dyck had painted a portrait of the same three children, which was intended to be sent to the Queen's sister Christina, in exchange for portraits of the Duchess's children. However, the King was angry with Van Dyck for showing Prince Charles wearing ...
Georges began buying paintings by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) in the 1870s. [1] Charpentier purchased two landscapes and one portrait by Renoir at the second Impressionist exhibition in 1875, including The angler (Le Pêcheur à la ligne, 1874), Garden with dahlias (Jardin aux dahlias), and Head of a woman (1875).
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[1] [2] In the mid-1990s it was sold to an art dealer in Osaka for around $191,000, and re-appeared in 2002 on the website eBay. It was put up for sale by Philip Weiss Auctions in 2012, [4] selling in New York City for $155,250. [1] [2] The painting was auctioned again at Christie's in February 2024, where it sold for £1.4 million. [5]