Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Spring (1894)

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This work of art has been digitally enhanced without erasing signs of ageing for the sake of authenticity. Digital paintings are very popular right now as an affordable and stylish way to decorate and personalize your home and office.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Spring (1894)

“The painting relates the Victorian custom of children collecting flowers on May Day back to an Ancient Roman spring festival, perhaps Cerealia or Floralia or Ambarvalia, although the details depicted in the painting do not correspond to any single Roman festival. It was the inspiration for the scene of Julius Caesar’s triumphal entry into Rome in the 1934 film Cleopatra.

Many of the participants and spectators were modelled by Alma-Tadema’s friends or members of his family. They include the bearded composer George Henschel and his daughter Helen, high on a balcony to the right. A bearded bust to the lower left may be a self-portrait of Alma-Tadema, beside the base of a column where the painting is signed and numbered: ” L Alma Tadema Op CCCXXVI”.

The surrounding scene is an architectural capriccio, not a single known location but rather combining parts of known Roman buildings from several different locations. To the left rear is a triumphal arch, with an inscription taken from the Arch of Trajan at Benevento, 130 mi (210 km) southeast of Rome; its spandrel is decorated with a river god based on the Arch of Constantine, but unusually accompanied by a sheep and bull (for Aries and Taurus, denoting April and May). A building to the left has a frieze showing the battle of Lapiths and Centaurs. Visible to the rear are two bronze equestrian statues, based on marble statues from Pompeii.”

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