Lawrence Alma-Tadema

The Roses of Heliogabalus

US$ 633.00

The young emperor Heliogabalus, according to a late and probably unreliable Roman source, smothered his dinner guests under a deluge of rose petals released from the ceiling. Alma-Tadema had fresh roses shipped weekly from the Riviera through a London winter so he could paint them from life. The result is one of the most purely decorative pictures of the nineteenth century — a wall of falling pink above marble and silk.

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was born in Friesland, settled in London, and built a career on scenes of Greek and Roman life researched with near-archaeological precision — he collected thousands of photographs of ruins and artefacts to get the marble, bronze and drapery exactly right. Enormously successful in his lifetime, dismissed for decades after it, and now back in favour; his staging of the ancient world shaped how Hollywood later imagined it.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 52 × 32 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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