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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.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema OM, RA, RWS (/ ˈ æ l m ə ˈ t æ d eɪ m ə / AL-mə TAD-ay-mə; [1] born Lourens Alma Tadema, Dutch: [ˈlʌurəns ˈɑlmaː ˈtaːdəmaː]; 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom, becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873.
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]
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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 .
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
The Bible and Its Story, Taught By One Thousand Picture Lessons is a pedagogical children's book series in 10 volumes published Francis R. Niglutsch in 1908 and 1909 [1]: frontispiece illustrating pivotal scenes from the Holy Bible; edited by Charles F. Horne and Julius August Brewer, it is in the public domain.