![]() ![]() In 1870 he relocated to England, and stayed there until his death. His artistic career began at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, that was located in Belgium. He was a famous Dutch painter who was raised in Dronrijp, in the Netherlands. The painting was commissioned by Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet for ?4,000 in 1888. Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born on Januand died on June 25, 1912. The original reference is this: In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling he once buried his guests in violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top. A woman plays the double pipes beside a marble pillar in the background, wearing the leopard skin of a maenad, with a bronze statue of Dionysus in front of a view of distant hills.Īlthough the Latin refers to ''violets and other flowers'', Alma-Tadema depicts Elagabalus smothering his unsuspecting guests with rose petals released from a false ceiling. The youthful Roman emperor Elagabalus, wearing a golden silk robe and tiara, watches the spectacle from a platform behind them with other garlanded guests. ![]() ![]() It shows a group of Roman diners at a banquet, being swamped by drifts of pink rose petals falling from a false ceiling above. The painting depicts a (probably invented) episode in the life of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus (204?22), taken from the Augustan History. ![]()
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