1836-1912
Related Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,OM.RA,RWS :. | Hadrian Visiting a Romano-British Pottery Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | Lord Mountstuart MP | The Roses of Heliogabalus | Sappho and Alcaeus | A Pyrrhic Dance Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | Related Artists: Jules Emile Saintin France 1829-1894 Antonio Canova Italian Neoclassical Sculptor, 1757-1822
Italian sculptor, painter, draughtsman and architect. He was the most innovative and widely acclaimed sculptor of NEO-CLASSICISM. His development during the 1780s of a new style of revolutionary severity and idealistic purity led many of his contemporaries to prefer his ideal sculptures to such previously universally admired Antique statues as the Medici Venus and the Farnese Hercules, thus greatly increasing the prestige of 'modern' sculpture. He was also much in demand as a portrait sculptor. Barend van Orley Brussels ca 1488-1541