Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema by Denise Ankele

Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 2001, p. In 1890, the year An Eloquent Silence was painted, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and his family were staying at Georg Ebers' summer home at Tutzing in Bavaria (Rosemary J. cat., Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Belvedere, Vienna Leighton House Museum, London, October 1, 2016-October 29, 2017, p. 338Įlizabeth Prettejohn and Peter Trippi, eds., Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, exh. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1990, p. Kester, Mythology and Misogyny, The Social Discourse of Nineteenth-Century British Classical Subject Painting, London, 1989, p. Swanson, Alma-Tadema: The painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient world, London, 1977, p. Rudolf Dircks, 'The later works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A., R.W.S,' Art Journal, Christmas Edition, London, 1910, p. 537ĭemorest's Family Magazine, January 1892, vol. The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, London, May 3, 1890, p. Paul's Cathedral in London.The Magazine of Art, London, 1890, p. Like Sir John Everett Millais, Alma-Tadema is buried in St. Alma-Tadema became a Royal Academy member in 1879 and received the Order of Merit in 1905. His second wife, painter Laura Epps, appeared in many paintings. Alma-Tadema inspired many followers and imitators, including Hollywood, which has consistently reproduced his vision of the ancient world on film.Īlma-Tadema's paintings offer no moral lessons, and his critics called them lewd and spiritually vacuous, but the public loved them, enabling him to enjoy a sumptuous lifestyle in a house modeled on a Pompeian villa. His paintings are marked by clarity of color, exactness, and smooth finish he imagined a Rome of splendor, sunlight, and gentle sentiment. Alma-Tadema moved to London in 1870 after his wife's death, and soon became a British citizen.

The British publication Punch called him a 'marbellous artist' because of his skill at painting marble. 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany) initially specialized in Merovingian and Egyptian scenes, but after visiting Pompeii in 1863 he turned to archaeologically exact genre paintings of classical Greece and Rome. Dutch by birth, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (b.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema by Denise Ankele