Author: Barrow, Rosemary
Title: Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Description: New York, Phaidon, 2001. Hardcover. Textured red casebound book. There is a dust jacket with red and black text down a multi-colored spine. Pages: (5), 6-208. Profusely illustrated with color images. "In this original and penetrating study, Rosemary Barrow presents an absorbing and often amusing portrait of an exuberant personality who carved out a brillant career for himself at the heart of London's artistic and cultural elite. But above all she subjects the paintings to a fresh and rigorous scrutiny, revealing that Alma-Tadema was a highly knowledgeable student of antiquity, who made effective use of precise literary and archaeological allusions to play a game of interpretation with his viewers. Time and again the seeming innocence of the scenes he depicts is subverted by a mischievously placed inscription or statue, suggesting to the initiated a darker and usually risque meaning. VG+/VG+ .

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