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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 Academy .
William remarried, to Lucy Lyon in 1877; she was born in 1843 in Speenhamland, Berkshire. Their children were Arthur James Hope and Laura Evelyn Downey. William's youngest son, Arthur, as A.J.H. Downey, continued the family business: his work included a portrait of King George V's children in 1910, the year of the king's accession. [7]
[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]
Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan met in 2003 on the set of 'Gothika.' Here's what to know about who RDJ's wife is and their relationship of 20+ years.
John Ferguson Weir (1841–1926) was an American painter, sculptor, writer, and educator. He was a son of painter Robert Walter Weir, long-time professor of drawing at the Military Academy at West Point.