Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

victorian-era

Alma-Tadema Paintings 1836 - 1912 Painter,Draftsman,Netherlands,Victorian Neoclassicism

Love's Votaries, 1891

Oil on canvas

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

Figurative Art

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OIL PAINTING: Love's Votaries, 1891
The Roman ladies in the foreground of Love's Votaries are highly proper (and look a shade bored) compared to their Greek sisters in the bas relief behind, who have collapsed into a crazy pile of limbs and torsos following a wild dance... or worse. The marble relief is brilliantly rendered as usual; indeed this picture may be read as a metaphor for Alma Tadema's work as a whole: Alma Tadema often seemed able to draw more emotion from marble than people.