Comments on: Feel Art Again: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

By: Jigsaw Puzzle: Unconscious Rivals | Smartkit Puzzles and Brain Teasers

Jigsaw Puzzle: Unconscious Rivals | Smartkit Puzzles and Brain Teasers — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:54:12 +0000

[...] Mental Floss has a nice interesting feature on Sir Alma-Tadema here… [...]

By: Larriann

Larriann — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:47:44 +0000

The marble is indeed very nice, but it’s the azalea bush that just knocks my socks off! Just stunning!

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:37:28 +0000

Amazing sense of realism! I’d love to see some of his work in person. Until then, though, this is the next best thing – thanks!

By: Therese

Therese — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:49:26 +0000

What a fascinating artist! Thank goodness the doctors were wrong in their prognosis, or else we might never have had these pictures to enjoy in museums or on our computer screens… I look forward to Thursday’s post; I hear that Heliogabalus is even more interesting than Alma-Tadema.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:14:24 +0000

I really enjoy his work. A couple of his pieces are at the Getty here in LA. Realistic rich colors and beautiful flowing clothing with such detail! Romantic with a lightness that’s not cold.

By: kittymama

kittymama — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:57:16 +0000

I love The Women of Amphissa (partly because the idea of maenads fascinates me), and it’s been my wallpaper a lot of the time. If you don’t own or can’t visit a real Alma-Tadema, it’s definitely worthwhile to search among the online images available for one that is really high-res, crisp and colorful.

By: Dan T.

Dan T. — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:34:10 +0000

That very painting – “Unconscious Rivals” – had been my PowerBook wallpaper for at least a year until just a month or so ago. Not real practical since the icons didn’t stand out real well but I just loved the image. It always stirred comments on overhead projection presentations, asking if that was my backyard, etc.

I’d first heard of Tadema when visiting a site devoted to Enya’s music where a fan had included Tadema’s work in a multimedia presentation.

For what it’s worth, I read some comments from one of his descendants who said Tadema pronounced his full name with the accent on the first syllable of each name – I’d never heard his name spoken and had presumed Tadema’s accent was on the second. NOW I know everything.