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 CGFA- Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Ninety-Four Degrees in the Shade
CGFA- Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Ninety-Four Degrees in the Shade
www.pl.vim.org /cgfa/alma/p-alma4.htm   (8 words)

  
 ARC ARTicles - Biography of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Vern Swanson - Page 1/11
Alma-Tadema recalled that he was drawn towards art at a very early age, but denied by his father's wishes from being an infant prodigy in spite of his early attempts to draw at the age of four.
Pieter Tadema was the village notary from 1832 to 1837.
Bisschop's father had died when the boy was young, and as with Lawrence, his mother's acquiescence to her son's wishes to become an artist was deterred by strong-willed godfathers; both boys seemed condemned to take up mundane professions.
www.artrenewal.org /articles/2001/Alma-Tadema/tadema1.asp   (1943 words)

  
 Life Of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema
Alma Tadema is fond of telling the tale how, when he had finished his second two dozen pictures, Gambart invited him and the whole artistic colony of Brussels to dinner.
LAURENS ALMA TADEMA was born on January 8th, 1836, at Dronryp, a little town in the very heart of the Frisian province of Holland.
It was thus that Alma Tadema became acquainted with their early annals by which his own first pictures were inspired.
www.oldandsold.com /articles29/tadema-1.shtml   (3087 words)

  
 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Lawrence Alma-Tadema was perhaps the most well known painters of 19th century Englishman, highly regarded for his realistic classical paintings.
www.masters-gallery.com /03_Artists/artists/Tadema   (20 words)

  
 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM RA 1836-1912: An Overview
Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a Dutch artist who exhibited in Britain from the mid 1860s and became a resident in 1870.
In 1864 the art dealer Gambart first saw Alma-Tadema's work and was deeply impressed, giving the artist major commissions.
Tadema's paintings began to appear in Gambart's 'French Gallery' in London and in 1869 he first exhibited in the Royal Academy.
www.victorianweb.org /painting/tadema   (357 words)

  
 Tallulahs Directory of Classical Master Artists and Nude Images; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the epitome of "High Victorian" art died in 1912 at the age of seventy-six.
Lawrence produced a vast amount of paintings over the next twenty years, averaging six or seven paintings a year, including a number of subjects in which he portrayed semi-nude females.
To Tadema, the nudes were merely decorative adjuncts to vivid reconstructions of classical history, but to the prudish Victorians, a full-frontal female nude was deeply offending.
tallulahs.com /a1.html   (694 words)

  
 Victorian Art in Britain - Alma Tadema
Lawrence Alma Tadema continued to paint, but his output decreased, and he died at the Spa in the German town of Weisbaden on 25
Alma Tadema was a sociable extrovert, highly popular with his peers, and the artistic soulmate of Lord Leighton.
But in the case of Alma Tadema there was one single bizarre incident which acted as a catalyst in his posthumous artistic reformation.
www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk /biog/alma-tameda.htm   (1949 words)

  
 Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Papers of Lawrence Alma-Tadema are housed at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (January 8, 1836--June 25, 1912) was a Dutch-born artist.
Born at Dronrijp, a Frisian village near Leeuwarden, he was the son of Pieter Tadema, a notary, who died when Lawrence was only four years old.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence_Alma-Tadema   (1036 words)

  
 Biography for: Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a painter, designer and collector, the son of a Dutch notary.
www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Alma_T_L.htm   (464 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Lawrence Alma Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (January 8, 1836--June 25, 1912) was a (The West Germanic language of the Netherlands) Dutch-born artist.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema[al´mu-tad´imu] Pronunciation Key, 1836–1912, English painter, b.
AllRefer.com - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lawrence-Alma_Tadema   (179 words)

  
 Getting Technical: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Art History
The life of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, one of the most successful painters of the High Victorian period, was not the typical life of most artists who struggle to survive only to become famous after their death.
Thus, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, as he became known after moving his studio to London in 1870, became the foremost painter of the ancient world.
Lourens Alma Tadema was born in 1836 in Holland, the son of a local notary.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art29809.asp   (576 words)

  
 Lawrence Alma Tadema Expectations
Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born in the Netherlands in 1836 and after training at the Antwerp Academy became a pupil of Baron Hendryk Leys, a historical genre painter.
In 1863 he visited Italy where the ruins of Pompeii made a particularly lasting impression.
www.artland.co.uk /page13.html   (67 words)

  
 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)
His name had been Lorens Tadema and Alma had been his middle name in Holland.
Tadema was arguably the most successful painter of the Victorian era.
One of Tadema's most famous and popular works, it took him four years to complete and involved several reworkings to perfect the union of historical detail and aesthetic composition.
www.goodart.org /artoflat.htm   (851 words)

  
 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Short biography of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, painter of scenes from everyday life in the ancient world, supplemented with a collection of his paintings.
Playwright Jerome Lawrence was one half of one of the most prolific writing teams in the history of American theater.
Most of his best-known works were written in collaboration with fellow playwright Robert E. Lee, and their work appeared in the theater as well as on radio, television, and in motion pictures.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9005843   (693 words)

  
 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Study of a Roman Wall - Painted in Rome, 1876 - Painting
The canvas depicts a scene in a Pompeian courtyard in which the figures are modeled after Laura Alma-Tadema and her two step-daughters, Lawrence and Anna, as well as the painter himself.
Study by L. Alma Tadema painted in Rome in 1876 Exhibited at the Alma Tadema Memorial Exhibition at the Royal Academy Winter 1912 Presented for the Red Cross sale by Lawrence Alma Tadema, Anna Alma Tadema
The present study proved to be of great importance in Alma-Tadema's oeuvre and was used in many of his paintings in the 1890's, according to Vern Swanson, including At the Close of a Joyful Day of 1894.
www.artregister.com /ZimmermannCatalogue/British/Alma_Tadema/Roman_Wall.html   (496 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Books
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), was one of the finest and most distinctive of the Victorian painters.
She also avoids the trap of becoming sidetracked into the flawed argument that Tadema's work was expertly produced but ultimately vacuous tosh for which wealthy philistines would pay high prices.
The book is arranged chronologically, beginning with Tadema's earliest exhibited works, and progressing through his career to, at the end, examples of works that remain unfinished.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/071484358X   (816 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
— Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the painter of "Victorians in togas", was one of the most successful artists of the XIX century.
Alma Tadema sold the painting to the MP Sir John Aird, for the then enormous sum of £4000.
Laurens (later he changed to the more English Lawrence) Tadema was born in the small village of Dronrijp, about 5 km west of Leeuwarden, Friesland, Holland.
www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /art/art4jun/art0625.html   (5963 words)

  
 Lawrence Alma-Tadema Biography
Born Lourens Tadema (Alma being his middle name) in Dronryp, Friesland, to Pieter Tadema, a notary, and his second wife Hinke Brouwer - from an early age he showed some artistic ability and the beginnings of his highly methodical and exacting nature as demonstrated in his paintings to follow.
The Tademas soon moved to Paris where Lourens entered into a long-term contract with the well-known art dealer Ernest Gambart, an influential man with connections throughout Europe.
In 1873 he became a naturalized British citizen, at the same time consciously joining his middle name, Alma, to his surname.
www.mezzo-mondo.com /arts/mm/alma-tadema/alma-tadema.html   (1021 words)

  
 Art Bulletin, The: Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the modern city of ancient Rome - Critical Essay
Nonetheless, it may still seem heretical to argue that the representation of ancient Rome in the work of the Dutch-born but London-based painter Lawrence AlmaTadema (1836-1912) can be seen as a significant exploration of urban modernity.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the modern city of ancient Rome - Critical Essay
Art Bulletin, The: Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the modern city of ancient Rome - Critical Essay
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_1_84/ai_84721210   (1101 words)

  
 Sir Lawrence Alma-tadema (1836 - 1912) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Lawrence Alma Tadema - Joesph, Overseer of Pharaoh's Granaries 1874 oil on panel Dahesh Museum of Art British
Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence, Künstler, Kunstmaler, Malerei, malen, Kunst, Kunstportal, Kunstplattform, Kunstsite
Organized by MOCA assistant curator Alma Ruiz, the exhibition will include over 100 works that highlight the artist's use of diverse media and eclectic subject matter.
wwar.com /masters/a/alma-tadema-sir_lawrence.html   (1219 words)

  
 Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912)
Alma Tadema was a friend of the future king Edward VII, to whom he dedicated a series of pornographic works.
Alma Tadema enjoyed his succes and they lived extravagantly at Townshend House in Tichfield Terrace, Regent's Park.
Alma-Tadema moved to London where his star was rising and there he married his young pupil Laura Epps.
www.xs4all.nl /~androom/biography/p009805.htm   (256 words)

  
 Alma-Tadema Oil Paintings, Alma-Tadema Biography & Alma-Tadema Gallery
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was an English painter in the academic tradition.
Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1869.
www.huntfor.com /absoluteig/tadema.htm   (93 words)

  
 The Pyrrhic Dance; a drawing for illustration after the painting 'The Pyrrhic Dance' by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM RA 1836-1912
It is interesting that Tadema has emphasised the creative aspect of this means of reproduction by increasing the foreground space in his drawing.
Blackburn's Academy Notes, which began to appear in 1875, is the most celebrated example of this phase in the history of illustration.
The new composition undoubtedly reflects his interest in the compositional techniques of Japanese prints (Swanson, 1977), which use similar unconventional organizations of space.
www.victorianweb.org /painting/tadema/drawings/11.html   (445 words)

  
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 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Biography - Olga's Gallery
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the painter of "Victorians in togas", was one of the most successful artists of the XIX century.
Laurens (later he changed to the more English Lawrence) Tadema was born on 8 January 1836, in the small village of Dronrijp, which lies about 3 miles to the west of Leeuwarden, Holland.
He was internationally famous and so immensely popular that scarcely a middle-class Victorian drawing room was without at least one print of Alma-Tadema's painting.
www.abcgallery.com /A/almatadema/almabio.html   (730 words)

  
 ARC ARTicles - Biography of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Vern Swanson - Page 1/11
Alma-Tadema recalled that he was drawn towards art at a very early age, but denied by his father's wishes from being an infant prodigy in spite of his early attempts to draw at the age of four.
Pieter Tadema was the village notary from 1832 to 1837.
Bisschop's father had died when the boy was young, and as with Lawrence, his mother's acquiescence to her son's wishes to become an artist was deterred by strong-willed godfathers; both boys seemed condemned to take up mundane professions.
www.artrenewal.org /articles/2001/Alma-Tadema/tadema1.asp   (1943 words)

  
 Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema (1836-1912)
Lawrence Alma Tadema (born Laurens Tadema) was Dutch, and only came to England when in his mid-30s, in 1869.
Alma Tadema had many followers and imitators, the best of them such as John William Waterhouse, John Collier and the American Elihu Vedder developing the classical themes in their own way.
Alma Tadema is the archetypical Classicist painter, and at his peak rivalled
www.speel.demon.co.uk /artists/tadema.htm   (584 words)

  
 CGFA- Lawrence Alma-Tadema: The Year is at the Spring
CGFA- Lawrence Alma-Tadema: The Year is at the Spring
ftp.at.vim.org /art/cgfa/alma/p-alma2.htm   (9 words)

  
 ARC :: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) :: Page 1 of 19
"Lawrence Alma-Tadema was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth century Britain.
C.A. Smith's poem is an interesting counterpart to Alma-Tadema's painting as it focusses more on the personality of the emperor, who is seen as something of a decadent aesthete.
Frolicsome was not the process of painting this piece, which took some time and labour, with Tadema having to import roses out of season.
www.artrenewal.org /asp/database/art.asp?aid=8   (838 words)

  
 Classic Tile Murals - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Women of Amphissa
Classic Tile Murals - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Women of Amphissa
In the center, beneath the roundel, perhaps intended as the leader of the women of Amphissa, is Laura Alma-Tadema.
Produced on 40 pieces of 4"x 4" tumbled Italian Botticino Marble Tile
www.classictilemurals.com /artists/almatadema/tademaladies2.html   (328 words)

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