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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.
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 .
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 women of Amphissa formed a protective ring around them and when they awoke arranged for them to return home unmolested. The Women of Amphissa by Lawrence Alma-Tadema On another occasion, the Thyiades were snowed in on Parnassos and it was necessary to send a rescue party.
At the time of that sale, Christie’s attributed the biblical scene to the “Circle of Rembrandt,” suggesting it had been carried out by a student or an artist close to the famous painter, and ...
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Swim, stroll, play, eat, repeat — this was life for the Kennedys in Palm Beach, from the time patriarch Joseph Kennedy bought his compound on the north end of the island for $120,000 in 1933 ...
He even wrote a letter that goes with the painting describing the adventures they had together back in the late 1800s. Now, when the letter alone was valued at $2,000, we knew the painting had to ...