Sappho and alcaeus alma-tadema biography
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File:Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, RA, OM - Sappho and Alcaeus - Walters 37159.jpg
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| Alternative names | Lawrence Alma Tadema, Lourens Alma Tadema, Laurens Alma Tadema | ||
| Description | Dutch-British painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator | ||
| Date of birth/death | 8 January 1836 | 25 June 1912 | |
| Location of birth/death | Dronryp | Wiesbaden | |
| Work period | 1851-1912 | ||
| Work location | Antwerp (1852-1865), Leeuwarden (1855), Cologne (1861), Pompeii (1863-1864), Paris (1864), City of Brussels (1865-1870), London (1868, 1870-1912), Egypt (1902-1903) | ||
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artist QS:P170,Q240526
Sappho and Alcaeus
English: In 1870, the Dutch-born, Belgian-trained artist Alma-Tadema moved to London, where he found a ready market among the wealthy middle classes for paintings re-creating scenes of domestic life in imperial Roman times. In this work, however, he turns to early Greece to illustrate a passage by the ancient Greek poet Hermesianax (active ca. 330 BC) preserved in Atheneaus, Deipnosophistae, "Banquet of the Learned," book 2, line 598. On the island of Lesbos (Mytilene)
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Sappho and Alcaeus
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Provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore, astern 1881, insensitive to purchase [Deschamps as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Becoming extinct Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2014-2016 | From Rye run into Raphael: Say publicly Walters Tale. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2007 | Howard Pyle current the Earth Renaissance. Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Crossing. |
| 2002-2004 | A Great Age: Masterpieces from picture W • Sappho and Alcaeus1881 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema Sappho and Alcaeus is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch-British artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema, from 1881. It is held by the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore.[1] Description[edit]The painting measures 66 by 122 centimetres (26 in × 48 in). It depicts a concert in the late 7th century BC, with the poet Alcaeus of Mytilene playing the kithara. In the audience is fellow Lesbos poet Sappho, accompanied by several of her female friends. Sappho is paying close attention to the performance, resting her arm on a cushion which bears a laurel wreath, presumably intended for the performer. The painting illustrates a passage by the poet Hermesianax, recorded by Athenaeus in his Deipnosophistae ("The Philosophers' Banquet"), book 13, page 598. The location, with tiers of white marble seating, is based on the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, but Alma-Tadema replaced the original inscribed names of Athenians with the names of Sappho's friends. In the background, the Aegean Sea can be seen through some trees.[2] Reception[edit]The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1881, and depicted in William Powell Frith's A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881, to the far righ |