Preparation in the Colosseum

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Preparation in the Colosseum: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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Work Overview: Preparation in the Coliseum
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Date: 1912
Style: Romanticism
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 153.5 x 79.5 cm
Location: Private Collection

In 1872 Alma-Tadema organised his paintings into an identification system by including an opus number under his signature and assigning his earlier pictures numbers as well. Portrait of my sister, Artje, painted in 1851, is numbered opus I, while two months before his death he completed Preparations in the Coliseum, opus CCCCVIII. Such a system would make it difficult for fakes to be passed off as originals.

On 15 August 1909 Alma-Tadema's wife, Laura, died at the age of fifty-seven. The grief-stricken widower outlived his second wife by less than three years. His last major composition was Preparation in the Coliseum (1912).[24] In the summer of 1912, Alma Tadema was accompanied by his daughter Anna to Kaiserhof Spa, Wiesbaden, Germany where he was to undergo treatment for ulceration of the stomach.[25] He died there on 28 June 1912 at the age of seventy-six. He was buried in a crypt in St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Preparation in the Coliseum (1912) was Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s last major composition. Since the death of his wife Laura in 1909 he was broken. In June 1912 he traveled to Kaiserhof Spa in Wiesbaden with his daughter Anna. He died there before the end of the month, aged seventy-six.

After his death, his style of painting quickly went out of fashion. His student John Collier and John William Godward carried it on for a while, but the time was over. It would be nearly sixty years before he was discovered again, and meanwhile his paintings sell for record prices.

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