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Entrance to a Roman Theatre

By Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1866.

19
Jun 2012
AUTHOR Mark Newton
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art & photography

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  • http://twitter.com/PrinceJvstin Paul Weimer

    No shortage of 19th century paintings with the Romans as subjects! :)

  • http://markcnewton.com Mark Newton

    Indeed! Though annoyingly there is a shortage of Byzantine paintings. Probably because the neo-classical folk didn’t think much of that period. 

  • http://twitter.com/PrinceJvstin Paul Weimer

    The Byzantines got a very bad reputation and were ignored for a very long time, well into the 20th century. 

    Probably Norwich is the real person who changed that–although Asimov also wrote a history of Byzantium that I need to find and read.