![]() From Lodewijk Jan de Taeye, Alma Tadema learnt the techniques of the northern Old Masters – the emotional intimacy of the shadowed interior, the use of lighting to heighten domestic stillness into a quiet epic.Īlma-Tadema launched himself in the 1860s with Merovingian scenes for patriotic Belgians, but he was already looking south. From Jan August Hendrick Leys, he learnt the art of staging a dramatic tableau – the placement of characters to reflect emotional dynamics, the use of oblique perspective to suggest that the viewer has just entered a private narrative, and deployment of historical detail to weave the eye into the image. In 1852, aged 16, he left for the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at Antwerp, and an apprenticeship under two Belgian painters. Lourens Alma Tadema was born in 1836, a notary’s son from rural Friesland. This is his first major London show since the posthumous tribute of 1913. After opening in Holland at the Museum of Friesland (near his birthplace in Leeuwarden), then progressing to the Belvedere at Vienna, Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity opens at Leighton House Museum on 7 July. ![]() This year, Alma-Tadema returns in triumph to London after a century of exile. ![]() Unconscious Rivals, 1893, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, oil on canvas. ![]()
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