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Wednesday
Nov132013

Victorian Classicism

DateWednesday, November 13, 2013 at 12:09PM

Frederick Leighton - The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet, 1853-55, oil on canvas, Agnes Scott College at Decatur, Georgia (click photo for larger image)Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Sappho and Alcaeus, 1881, oil on canvas, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (click photo for larger image)Victorian Classicism was a British form of historical painting inspired by the art and architecture of Classical Greece and Rome. Frederick Leighton (1830-1896) and Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) were the leading Classicists, and in their lifetimes were considered by many to be the finest painters of their generation. These movements were closely related to the 18th century Romanticism, as well as to the Pre-Raphaelite painters of the mid 19th century.

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