After a brush with almost Impressionist landscapes, did he settle down and paint Rome and Greece purely for the sake of art?
Alma-Tadema
After his reputation was shredded by Roger Fry, Alma-Tadema was almost forgotten. Why should his work now be revived?
His classical narratives are as sophisticated as Leighton’s, his spectacles as good as Gérôme at his best, and he made some of the best paintings of the Aesthetic movement.
Introduction to a series explaining the history of oil paint, effects on techniques, hence on paintings themselves.
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