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A bearded bust to the lower left may be a self-portrait of Alma-Tadema, beside the base of a column where the painting is signed and numbered: " L Alma Tadema Op CCCXXVI". The surrounding scene is an architectural capriccio, not a single known location but rather combining parts of known Roman buildings from several different locations=.
In the square where the scene takes place, the market is already set up with the many products it offers: oils, honey, eggs, meat, fish, among others Alma-Tadema offers the viewer the meeting of two exclusively female groups. Only one man appears in the painting: a merchant located in the shadows of his stall, at the left. [1]
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.
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 ...
The Beguiling of Merlin, 1874 by Edward Burne-Jones, at the Lady Lever Art Gallery. This is a list of paintings produced by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and other artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelite style.
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.
The painting was a part of an exhibition of Lawrence Alma-Tadema's paintings in Belvedere, Vienna, Austria from 24 February 2017 to 18 June 2017. [ 15 ] La Pluie de roses D'Héliogabale is a separate yet similar painting, recorded to have been displayed at the 1880 Paris Salon , done by an artist under the name A. Heullant, likely Félix Armand ...
Paintings by the Dutch and English artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Pages in category "Paintings by Lawrence Alma-Tadema" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.