Alma-Tadema: Colour Plates
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 - 1912) was a Dutch born British painter. Trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky. Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been reevaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century English art. He is now regarded as one of the principal classical-subject painters of the nineteenth century whose works demonstrate the care and exactitude of an era mesmerized by trying to visualize the past, some of which was being recovered through archaeological research.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1542718961
ISBN13:9781542718967
Release Date:January 2017
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Length:74 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:11.0" x 0.2" x 8.5"
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