Cleopatra
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1875
From the collection of
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Besides Helen of Troy, no woman has enjoyed such fame for her beauty as the last Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. Having no portrait to work from Alma-Tadema apparently based this image on an antique bust of the Queen’s mother. The oval frame (suggesting a spy-hole through which the spectator is invited to peer) is decorated with its own suitably mysterious Egyptian motifs.
Details
Title: Cleopatra
Creator: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Date Created: 1875
Physical Dimensions: 54.6 x 66.7 cm sight; 73.5 x 85.8 x 6.0 cm frame
Type: Painting
Rights: Gift of Sir Herbert Thompson 1920
Medium: oil on canvas
Signature & Date: Signed and dated l.l., brown paint "L Alma-Tadema op CXLVI".
Artist Country: England, Netherlands
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
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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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