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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 Orlando Project says about Alma-Tadema's writing that the "characteristic tone is one of intense emotion, but in prose and verse she has the gift of compression". [1] She contributed widely to periodicals, notably The Yellow Book, and also edited one herself. [1] Some of Alma-Tadema's plays were successfully produced in Germany. [3]
A Reading from Homer (sometimes Listening to Homer) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1885 by the English artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema.It depicts an imaginary festival scene from ancient Greece with youth reading poetry to a small audience on a marble balcony overlooking the sea.
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema John William Godward (9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922) was an English painter from the end of the Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema , but his style of painting fell out of favour with the rise of modern art .
Alma-Tadema's works fell dramatically out of favour after his death in 1912, but provided inspiration for the set designers of Biblical epics such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916), and Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934) and The Ten Commandments (1956) (in 1968 Mario Amaya published an article in The Sunday Times entitled "The Painter who ...
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
Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh's Granaries by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1874). Joseph's granaries is a designation for the Egyptian pyramids often used by early travelers to the region.