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Phyllis (1895), by J.W. Waterhouse

In December 1895, at the age of 46, Waterhouse was finally elected as full Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts.  Through his paintings, he had become quite popular in London society although there have always been critics who disliked his style.  He was considered one of the most influential modern painters in England, together with Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Frank Dicksee and Frederic Leighton.

The portrayed Phyllis is the younger daughter of the president of the Royal Watercolour Society: Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow.  He and Waterhouse shared a studio on Primrose Hill.

lionofchaeronea:

Women of Amphissa, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1887

Welcome Footsteps, 1883, Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Medium: oil,canvas

lawrence-alma-tadema:

A Picture Gallery (Benjamin Constant), 1866,Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Medium: oil,canvas

lionofchaeronea:

The Wine Shop (Interior of an Ancient Roman Wine Shop as Excavated at Pompeii), Lawrence Alma-Tadema, between 1869 and 1874

bythebrush:

The Drawing Room at Townshend House
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - 1885

Wolfgang Tillmans, Moby, Lying, 1993
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888

Lawrence Alma-Tadema
“Unconscious Rival”

Art Detail: The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema

mythologyofthepoetandthemuse:

In the worship of Dionysus, his female followers lived with each other while the male presence was prohibited. These women represented the goddesses who had been united with the gods. The concept of ‘sacred fury’ characterized Maenads, who were also known as Bacchae. Blatant meant angry and not insane in the case of Maenads. Maenads were running wearing long dresses while they were carrying thyrsus, a reed wrapped with ivy or vine leaves, they were also wearing ivy leaves on their heads. Flutes and drums accompanied the  ecstatic and wild Maenads as they were dancing to honour their lord, Dionysus. Dionysus, a god of nature and of the deep forests, like the celtic Cernunnos, orgiastic and rejuvenating.

After a night of revelry on the slopes of Mt. Parnassus, exhausted Maenads collapse in the mountain town of Amphissa, where the local women take care of them. Painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema,1887.

Portrait of Ernest Albert Waterlow, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Royal Academy of Art, London.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - A Roman Art Lover - (1868)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Alma-Tadema