London & New York: Phaidon Press, Date: 2001. New in a New dust jacket. PERFECT CONDITION. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NO chips, tears or creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Sharp corners. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2001. First printing of the First Edition with "First published 2001" so stated on the copyright page. Sumptously illustrated throughout -- mostly in stunning full color. Bound in the original red boards, stamped in black on the spine. From the dust jacket: " Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was one of the finest and most distinctive of the Victorian painters. Dutch-born, he moved to London in 1870, and became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with langorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean sea and sky. In this original and penetrating study, Rosemary Barrow presents an absorbing and often amusing portrait of an exuberant personality who carved out a brilliant career for himself at the heart of London's artistic and cultural elite. But above all she subjects the paintings to a fresh scrutiny, and reveals that Alma-Tadema was a knowledgeable student of antiquity, who made effective use of precise literary and archaeological allusions to play a game of interpretation with his ...

ISBN10: 0714839183, ISBN13: 9780714839189, [publisher: London : Phaidon] Hardcover 208 p. : il. col. y n. ; 30 cm. English
[Roeselare, Belgium] [Publication Year: 2001]
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