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Alma-Tadema
[ al-muh-tad-uh-muh ]
noun
- Sir Lawrence, 1836–1912, English painter, born in the Netherlands.
Alma-Tadema
/ ˈælməˈtædɪmə /
noun
- Alma-TademaSir Lawrence18361912MEnglishDutchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Sir Lawrence. 1836–1912, Dutch-English painter of studies of Greek and Roman life
Example Sentences
May Queen dress from “Midsommar” “The vibrant florals remind me of my favorite painting, ‘Spring’ by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, which depicts a spring festival and the gathering of flowers on May Day.”
I had heard marvelous tales of his garden, also of the inside of the house—Attic vases, Meissen porcelain, paintings by Alma-Tadema and Frith.
In “Sappho and Alcaeus,” by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, a Victorian painter much given to lush re-creations of scenes from Greek antiquity, the Poetess and four diaphanously clad, flower-wreathed acolytes relax in a charming little performance space, enraptured as the male bard sings and plays, as if he were a Beat poet in a Telegraph Hill café.
The most powerful influence was the Pre-Raphaelite painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema, whose luscious blooms in luminous colors and languorous fin de siècle ladies were interpreted by the designer on the runway.
Take, for example, paintings by Victorian traditionalist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Camden Town impressionist Walter Sickert which now hang alongside each other.
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