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Lawrence Alma-Tadema


  • Prestel
  • Reprint. Expo: 1/10/2016 - 7/2/2017, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden | 13/2/2017 - 18/6/2017, Belvedere, Vienna
  • by Edited by Elizabeth Prettejohn & Peter Trippi
Lawrence Alma-Tadema's paintings were immensely popular among his contemporaries, and have since enchanted a wide audience through the medium of cinema. Accompanied by glowing reproductions of the artist's rich and detailed works, this book boldly re-assesses Alma-Tadema's art through the idea of home: from his admiration for the interiors depicted in early Dutch paintings through his fascination with Pompeian ruins, to his creation of large studio houses that were artworks in their own right.

ISBN 9783791355528 | E | HB
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Publisher Prestel
ISBN 9783791355528
Author(s) Edited by Elizabeth Prettejohn & Peter Trippi
Publication date March 2020
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 300 x 240 mm
Illustrations 175 col. & bw ill.
Pages 240
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Exhibition Fries Museum, Leeuwarden | 13/2/2017 - 18/6/2017, Belvedere, Vienna
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s paintings were immensely popular among his contemporaries, and have since enchanted a wide audience through the medium of cinema. Anyone who has ever enjoyed the great epic films of antiquity—from Italian silent classics to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator—will instantly recognize their origins in sets and costumes Alma-Tadema invented. Accompanied by glowing reproductions of the artist’s rich and detailed works, this book boldly re-assesses Alma-Tadema’s art through the idea of home: from his admiration for the interiors depicted in early Dutch paintings through his fascination with Pompeian ruins, to his creation of large studio houses that were artworks in their own right. Building upon Alma-Tadema’s renown as ”the archaeologist of artists,” the new scholarship in this impressive volume shows how the spaces he created and inhabited with his talented artist-wife Laura and their two daughters reflected an aesthetic vision that has thrilled viewers and other artists for more than a century. Appealing to general and scholarly audiences alike, this book underscores Alma-Tadema’s reputation as one of his era’s greatest creative talents.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

€47.00