19Jun Entrance to a Roman Theatre Posted by: Mark Newton in art & photography 3 Comments By Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1866. ancient world Rome
By Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1866.
No shortage of 19th century paintings with the Romans as subjects! 🙂
Indeed! Though annoyingly there is a shortage of Byzantine paintings. Probably because the neo-classical folk didn’t think much of that period.Â
The Byzantines got a very bad reputation and were ignored for a very long time, well into the 20th century.Â
Probably Norwich is the real person who changed that–although Asimov also wrote a history of Byzantium that I need to find and read.