Lawrence Alma-Tadema
by Rosemary J. Barrow
from Phaidon Press
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), was one of the finest and most distinctive of the Victorian painters. Dutch-born, he moved to London in 1870 and became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean sea and sky. In this original study, Rosemary Barrow presents an absorbing and often amusing portrait of an exuberant personality who carved out a brilliant career for himself at the heart of London's artistic and cultural elite. But above all she subjects the paintings to a fresh scrutiny, and reveals that Alma-Tadema, a knowledgeable student of antiquity, repeatedly used literary and archaeological allusions in his paintings to play a game of interpretation with his viewers. Time and again the seeming innocence of the scenes he depicts is subverted by a mischievously placed inscription or statue, suggesting to the initiated a darker and usually risque meaning. Neglected after his death, Alma-Tadema's paintings are once again admired for their beauty and their remarkable mastery of light, colour and texture. With its intriguing insights into his personality and intentions, this book should provide a challenging reassessment of a major artist.
Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema
by Russell Ash
from Harry N. Abrams
Art in Reproduction: Nineteenth-Century Prints after Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jozef Israels and Ary Scheffer
by Robert Verhoogt
from Amsterdam University Press
In the nineteenth century new graphic techniques, the legal development of copyright, and the rise of the art market and art publishing resulted in a wide distribution of printed reproductions to the general public. Art in Reproduction examines the cultural meaning of artistic reproduction in a refreshingly new context through its consideration of how three nineteenth-century artists—Ary Scheffer, Jozef Israëls, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema—managed the reproduction of their own work. In addition to careful attention to the quality of their printed proofs, these artists shared a burgeoning interest in copyright procedure and a keen interest in profit—writing the next chapter in this changing artistic culture of replication, authenticity, and commodity.
Lawrence Alma Tadema: Spring (Getty Museum Studies on Art)
by Louise Lippincott
from Getty Publications
The works of the late Victorian painter Alma Tadema have recently enjoyed a revived interest. This second volume in the Getty Museum Studies on Art focuses on Spring, one of Tadema's most renowned paintings. The book is lavishly illustrated and includes details of the painting, a history, and an analysis focusing on sources, composition, and symbolism.
SIR LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA: THE PAINTER OF THE VICTORIAN VISION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
Lawrence Alma-Tadema Notecards
Drei klassizisten: Alma Tadema, Ebers, Vosmaer ; mit einer Bibliographie der Werke Alma Tadema's (Mededelingen en verhandelingen van het vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap " Ex Oriente Lux " )
A Question, The Idyl of a Picture by His Friend Alma Tadema, Related by Georg Ebers, from the German by Mary J. Safford
Victorians in togas: Paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema in the collection of Allen Funt, Department of European Paintings, March-April 1973
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