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Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Sappho and Alcaeus  wikidata:Q18749374 reasonator:Q18749374
Artist
Lawrence Alma-Tadema  (1836–1912)  wikidata:Q240526 q:it:Lawrence Alma-Tadema
 
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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 Edit this at Wikidata 25 June 1912 Edit this at Wikidata
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
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Title
Sappho and Alcaeus
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre history painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
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), in the late 7th century BC, Sappho and her companions listen rapturously as the poet Alcaeus plays a "kithara". Striving for verisimilitude, Alma-Tadema copied the marble seating of the Theater of Dionysos in Athens, although he substituted the names of members of Sappho's sorority for those of the officials incised on the Athenian prototype.
Date 1881
date QS:P571,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panelmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 66 cm (25.9 in); width: 122 cm (48 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,66U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,122U174728
; Framed height: 104.1 cm (41 in); width: 154.9 cm (61 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,104.14U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,154.94U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.159
Place of creation France
Object history
Exhibition history Empires Restored, Elysium Revisited: The Art of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, AJ Amsterdam; The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinatti; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1991-1992. Victorians: British Painting in the Reign of Queen Victoria, 1837-1901. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 1997. A Magnificent Age: Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002-2004. Howard Pyle and the American Renaissance. Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford. 2007. Victorian Painting. The Fine Arts Society, London. 1977.
Credit line Acquired by William T. Walters, after 1881
Inscriptions [Signature] Lower right: L. Alma Tadema; [Inscription] Lower right: Op CCXXII
References
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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Sappho and Alcaeus (1881). Oil on panel, 66 x 122 cm (25.9 x 48 in). Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. Alcaeus of Mytilene playing a kithara while Sappho listens.

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