A Roman Studio Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1874

A Roman Studio
Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1874
From the collection of
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
1870年にロンドンに定住した彼は、1874年にはイギリスを代表する画家の一人になっていた。21点もの作品を完成させたこの年は、彼の生涯の中で最も実りの多い一年であった。アトリエや展示室で、目利きに作品を見せる古代ローマの画家や彫刻家というテーマは、彼の初期の作品でとりわけ重要な位置を占めている。この作品でも、画面右の男が描いた絵に、批評を与える人たちを描いている。画面左上の画架に書き込まれたOp. CXXXVIは、彼の作品番号（136番）で、1851年の最初の作品からこの習慣は続けられ、生涯で番号は408に達した。
Details
Title: A Roman Studio
Creator: Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Date: 1874
Physical Dimensions: w93.5 x h64 cm
Type: western painting
External Link: http://www.fujibi.or.jp/en/our-collection/profile-of-works.html?work_id=3578

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Hachiōji-shi, Japan

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (TFAM) was founded by Daisaku Ikeda in 1983. The TFAM collection is comprised of some 30,000 Japanese, Eastern and Western artworks, ranging from paintings, prints, photography, sculptures, ceramics and lacquer ware to armor, swords and medallions of various periods and cultures. Especially noteworthy is its outstanding collection of Western oil paintings that spans a five-hundred-year period from the Renaissance to the Baroque and postmodernist eras, as well as its exceptional collection of photographic masterpieces. Based on the motto, “A museum creating bridges around the world,” TFAM sponsors exhibitions promoting cultural exchange that bring the finest artistic treasures of the world to Japan. TFAM’s international art exhibitions, for instance, have introduced the Japanese public to masterworks from the world’s most prestigious museums, including the Louvre in Paris and Palace Museum of Beijing, among others. To date, works from 17 countries and one region have been represented in the 41 International Exchange Exhibitions that our museum have held since 1983, when we opened TFAM with “Masterpieces of French Art,” to “The Palace of Heaven on Earth: Works from the Palace Museum in Beijing” in 2012. At the request of governments and cultural organizations worldwide, moreover, TFAM has loaned Japanese and Eastern art, as well as Western paintings, from our own collection to museums around the world. Starting with the “Eternal Treasures of Japan” exhibit in Paris, we have organized 33 exhibitions of our collected works in 28 cities in 17 countries and one region to date. In recognition for our museum’s contributions to the promotion of cultural exchange in both Japan and abroad, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented TFAM with an official commendation in 1990.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Jan 8, 1836 - Jun 25, 1912

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA was a Frisian painter of special British denizenship.
Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky.
Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century English art.
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