Tadema

Mrs. Alma Tadema is a painter with a great deal of originality and of power.

Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894

Tadema frequently created finished paintings that were no more than 5 inches on their short side.

Working Small, Working Big James Gurney 2010

In fact she looked adorable, if you can imagine an Alma Tadema beauty striking passionate poses while picking feathers off her bottom.

Watershed 2010

Lucas biography about his get-togethers with Sargent and Tadema.

Costumes, Part 1 James Gurney 2009

I did get to see a perfect Alma-Tadema portrait of his daughter, though, that made the visit worthwhile.

Academic and Illustration Museums James Gurney 2009

Many of the most technically proficient Victorian British painters were trained abroad: Alma-Tadema, Leighton, Poynter and Solomon who studied with Cabanel in Paris.

Solomon J. Solomon James Gurney 2009

I have often wondered if Tadema worked with a decorative painter - a faux finisher as it were - to paint the marble in his paintings...

Tadema’s Marble Secrets James Gurney 2008

The approach to the visual arts, for example, changed drastically in Western Civ. between the 1890's and the 1920's, but I defy anyone to show that it was an improvement -- which is why Victorian academic painters like Leighton and Alma-Tadema are now outselling anything new.

Tour de Force Walter Jon Williams 2007

In fact she looked adorable, if you can imagine an Alma Tadema beauty striking passionate poses while picking feathers off her bottom.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

Tadema, and a hundred others, induced the world they lived in to accept as a type of Greek beauty.

Of Human Bondage 1915