Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema

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Summary: Fantastic Full Page Reproductions!
Review: This book is filled with full page reproductions of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema's paintings. It also has an interesting bio with pictures of his home, studio, and himself. I've been looking everywhere for a great book on Alma Tadema and I believe this is the one. Besides reading about a painter's life, I think it is very important that we see color reproductions of the painter's work, and this book does it very well. I hate books with 4x4 black and white images of an artist's paintings, its useless. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book for lovers of Victorian art and Alma Tadema. I recently went to the Getty Museum and saw Alma Tadema's "Spring" and it looks exactly how it appears in the book. The full page color plates are exact reproductions of his paintings, unlike the newer book on Alma Tadema published by Phaidon whose reproductions have been altered and all appear saturated with blue hues. Anyways....GET THIS BOOK IF YOU CAN ONLY GET ONE BOOK ON ALMA TADEMA BECAUSE IT IS THE BEST!

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Summary: A wonderful representation of Alma-Tadema and his work
Review: _Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema_ is very well-organized, and Russell Ash provides informative insight into Alma-Tadema's life and the substance of his paintings. Each plate is accompanied by an informative vignette which further enhances the effect of each beautiful piece. The sample of art as a whole is well-chosen and certainly representative of Alma-Tadema's body of work, but one would like to see more paintings included. Altogether, a wonderful value.