Now’s a good time to bring some order to the paintings in the gallery, and to get the timeline working properly.
narrative
Death, doctored oil paint, and the stuff of nightmares: images from near the European Parliament.
After a brush with almost Impressionist landscapes, did he settle down and paint Rome and Greece purely for the sake of art?
After his reputation was shredded by Roger Fry, Alma-Tadema was almost forgotten. Why should his work now be revived?
An unusual classical god in very peculiar circumstances: what took the goddess of love to the doctor?
How did one of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood come to paint this clothed Andromeda, waiting to drown in the Solway Firth?
Distinguishing links from stretchtext, and building in a complex non-linear thread.
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.
Reviled through the twentieth century, in his day he was one of the most eminent British artists. Is he due a revival?
His later paintings became weaker in narrative to the point where some seemed almost trite. What was he up to?
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