Well-acknowledged in his time, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema brought scenes from ancient history to life in his decadent paintings. During the earlier stages of his artistic career, he started by depicting ...
Born Lourens Alma Tadema on January 8, 1836, in Dronrijp, Netherlands, he was the sixth child of Pieter Jiltes Tadema, a village notary, and Hinke Dirks Brouwer. After his father’s death in 1840, his ...
Read the story behind the opulent 1888 masterpiece by Anglo-Dutch painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888) Collection of Pérez Simón, Mexico.
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