Lawrence Alma-Tadema by Rosemary J. Barrow

'Presents an absorbing and often amusing portrait of an exuberant personality who carved out a brilliant career for himself at the heart of London's artistic and cultural elite. Considers the life and work of Dutch-born British artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). dust jacket, 208 pp., many BW & color illus. With its intriguing insights into his personality and intentions, this book should provide a challenging reassessment of a major artist.Ĭhoose your shipping method in Checkout.

their beauty and their remarkable mastery of light, colour and texture.

Time and again the seeming innocence of the scenes he depicts is subverted by a mischievously placed inscription or statue, suggesting to the initiated a darker and usually risque meaning. But above all she subjects the paintings to a fresh scrutiny, and reveals that Alma-Tadema, a knowledgeable student of antiquity, repeatedly used literary and archaeological allusions in his paintings to play a game of interpretation with his viewers. amusing portrait of an exuberant personality who carved out a brilliant career for himself at the heart of London's artistic and cultural elite. Dutch-born, he moved to London in 1870 and became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean sea and sky. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), was one of the finest and most distinctive of the Victorian painters. But above all she subjects the paintings to a fresh.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema by Rosemary J. Barrow