Love in Idleness
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1891
From the collection of
Laing Art Gallery
Details
Title: Love in Idleness
Creator: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Date: 1891/1891
Type: Painting
Laing Art Gallery
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
The Laing Art Gallery, in Newcastle city centre, is home to an impressive collection of art and sculpture and its exhibition programme is renowned for bringing the biggest names in historic, modern and contemporary art to the North East.
The permanent collection of art can be viewed throughout the season with important paintings by John Martin, William Holman-Hunt, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and sculpture by Henry Moore, amongst others.
The Laing Art Gallery is managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums on behalf of Newcastle City Council.
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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