After a brush with almost Impressionist landscapes, did he settle down and paint Rome and Greece purely for the sake of art?
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After his reputation was shredded by Roger Fry, Alma-Tadema was almost forgotten. Why should his work now be revived?
He said he’d rather go to Europe than go to Heaven. Let’s hope that he managed both. Paintings and articles about him listed.
An unusual classical god in very peculiar circumstances: what took the goddess of love to the doctor?
Into the 20th century, and he was busy teaching at Summer Schools in Europe, and trying to come to terms with art of the future.
A fascinating and eclectic year in art, as the Masters of the 19th century handed over to the tigers of the 20th.
How did one of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood come to paint this clothed Andromeda, waiting to drown in the Solway Firth?
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 early paintings were narrative and highly original. From the 1870s they changed, becoming more Aesthetic.
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