Lawrence Alma-Tadema, "After the Audience," oil on wood, 1879; National Gallery, London. #almatadema #classicart #classicpainting #neoclassicism #traditionalpainting #paintings #peintures #art #arte #oilpainting #museum #artgallery

🪷 #WorldWaterDay Lawrence #AlmaTadema was a Victorian Romanticist painter of architecturally exquisite Classical Greek, Roman scenes as well as Egyptian scenes. Here we see a Roman "Balneator" bath attendant and an Egyptian Carrying Water. 22 March is #WaterDay #DayForWater #WorldDayForWater 🪷

In a broad marble marketplace washed with pale morning light, women gather in small, emotionally distinct groups. Several exhausted bacchants lie asleep or half-awake on the stone pavement, their bodies slack, their hair loosened, their white and cream garments slipping into soft folds around them. One red-haired woman leans forward as if just rising; another sits upright, dazed, while a townswoman in deep blue bends toward her with food or drink. At the left, women cluster around baskets and provisions. At the center and rear, more figures stand in calm, vertical lines beneath a garlanded wall and near a monumental doorway. The contrast is striking: some women are disheveled, collapsed, and vulnerable; others are composed, attentive, and protective. British artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema (born in the Netherlands) orchestrates the whole scene through textures like cool stone, translucent drapery, dark hair, warm skin, and the hush of dawn after a long night. The title refers not to the sleeping revelers alone, but to the civic women of Amphissa, whose compassion is the real subject. Alma-Tadema drew the scene from ancient Greek writer Plutarch’s account of the Thyiades, female followers of Dionysus, who wandered in ritual ecstasy from Phocis and fell asleep in Amphissa’s marketplace. Though the cities were hostile, the local women formed a protective barrier around them, fed them when they awoke, and helped them return safely. For a Victorian audience, this historical episode became a moral image of female courage, restraint, and mercy. Rather than staging battle or scandal, Alma-Tadema centers women caring for women across political and social difference. Painted in 1887, when he was at the height of his fame for lavish classical reconstructions, this work turns antiquity into an ethical drama. Civilization is not triumph or punishment, but collective tenderness while the cool marble and luminous fabrics make care itself look monumental.

“The Women of Amphissa” by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch-born British) - Oil on canvas / 1887 - The Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts) #WomenInArt #LawrenceAlmaTadema #AlmaTadema #ClarkArt #VictorianArt #ClassicalArt #blueskyart #art #arttext #BritishArt #ClarkArtInstitute #1880sArt

She hears herself in the silence
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#FrederickLeighton #AlmaTadema

She hears herself in the silence
#Art #Neoclassicism #Symbolism #19th-centuryAcademicpainting
#FrederickLeighton #AlmaTadema

🪷 Tonight's lovely #Leo #ThirdQuarter Moon is called the #Bacchanalia moon in #Antinous #MoonMagic. It is ideal for actors, dancers, buskers, illusionists and ecstatic transformational revelry and altered states. More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... AI art in style of #AlmaTadema. 🪷

🎨 "Spring"
Artist: Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Date: 1894
Medium: Oil on canvas

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🎨 "The Finding of Moses"
Artist: Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Date: 1904
Medium: Oil on canvas

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🎨 "The Roses of Heliogabalus"
Artist: Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Date: 1888
Medium: Oil on canvas

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🎨 ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 🎨

This Dutch-British master (1836-1912) brought ancient Rome & Greece to life with stunning detail. His marble looked so real people tried to touch it:

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Un banquete convertido en trampa mortal, belleza que asfixia… 🌹⚰️ La pintura ‘Las rosas de Heliogábalo’ de Alma-Tadema es tan hermosa como perturbadora. ¿Te atreves a mirarla de cerca?

#Arte #Pintura #HistoriaDelArte #AlmaTadema #ObrasMaestras

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Here’s an ekphrastic piece for the prompt ‘onyx’ by #vss365

The painting is by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) and is titled ‘Under Blue Ionian Skies’.

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🪷 Lawrence #AlmaTadema, born 8 January 1836, died 25 June 1912. Victorian Romanticist painter of architecturally exquisite Classical Greek, Roman scenes and Egyptian scenes. antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/06/lawr... 🪷

🪷 #InternationalBathDay 14 June Lawrence #AlmaTadema was a Victorian Romanticist painter of architecturally exquisite Classical Greek and Roman scenes as well as Egyptian scenes. Here we see a Roman "Balneator" bath attendant and an Egyptian Carrying Water. #BathDay. 🪷

🪷 29 April #InternationalDanceDay. Paintings by Lawrence #AlmaTadema. 🪷

🪷 #WorldWaterDay Lawrence #AlmaTadema was a Victorian Romanticist painter of architecturally exquisite Classical Greek, Roman scenes as well as Egyptian scenes. Here we see a Roman "Balneator" bath attendant and an Egyptian Carrying Water. March 22nd is #WaterDay. 🪷

Leeuwarden, mural, #almatadema

This is one of my favorite details of “The Roses of Heliogabalus” by Alma Tadema. Its story is much more darker than these innocent petals here- 💀
#almatadema #roses #academicism #romanemporer #elagabalus #empereurromain #iloveyoutoolawrence #héliogabale

Una moneda de ventaja - Lawrence Alma-Tadema Punto de Vista Estratégico.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema era conocido por recrear escenarios de la Roma y Grecia clásica. Si a una de sus obras le añadimos como banda sonora a Black Sabbath el resultado sería este.😎
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🪷 Lawrence #AlmaTadema, born 8 January 1836, died 25 June 1912. Victorian Romanticist painter of architecturally exquisite Classical Greek, Roman scenes and Egyptian scenes. Art: #Hadrian Visiting a Romano-British Pottery. Full tribute: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/06/lawr... 🪷

Bit Off More I could Chew This oil painting ‘Psyche & Amor – 24-05-23’ is finished finally. Long overdue I must say. It took way more time than expected. Doesn’t it always go like that? There’s no venture you can’t handle and then you realize you bit off more than you could chew. I thought I’d quickly convert the original reference drawing into oil paint. For my admiration and the why I advice to click that link and read the story. So, as to executing it in oil I faced challenges right from the start. Not the least from a color point of view and then some. Intense Sunlight My list of ambitions was hugh. Above all, I wanted to depict intense sunlight. As far as I know this has rarely or never been done by artists. I mean, looking straight into the sun in broad daylight. You always see those painted sunsets in yellow or orange. As a disciple of the light I was duty-bound to finally make my mark. Do that bright sun for once and see if the result would look plausible, maybe even majestic. Color Scheme Depicting light forces one to think of color scheme choices. I have used the luministic yellow-purple scheme in the past but felt reluctant this time. First, I was a bit fed up employing it again. Second, my hands were tied to the Mediterranean theme. That means an awful lot of blue. Luckily my regular model’s genes come from India and her skin complexion looks ochreous, almost brown-orange. My fetish for blue velvet also came in handy. That way I could horizontally stack blue and orange structures on top of eachother, creating rhythym and diction. I also used mid-tones in the mid-section. That way I had the body stand out in bright orange hues. Otherwise the scenery would appear too much overexposed. Don’t you agree I took Johannes Itten’s lessons to heart? He recommends building up a painting from colors and their relations rather than forms.

Psyche & Amor – 23-05-23

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Oil on linen (100 x 150 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers

Available as original, print and printable

#art #almatadema #painting #classicart #realism #kunst #traditionalart #femaleform #nude