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Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicted the entrance to a Roman theatre with archaeological precision. Marble columns and steps frame figures in ancient costume. Alma-Tadema's research made his reconstructions of antiquity convincing.
Victorian audiences loved his immersive visions of the ancient world. This work hangs at the Fries Museum in the Netherlands.
Other masterpieces from the Academic Art movement

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1879
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix

Rosa Bonheur, 1853
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1873
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Alexandre Cabanel, 1863
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1866
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Frederic Leighton, 1895
Tate Britain, London

Frederic Leighton
Leighton House Museum, London, London
Luxury wall art with the same mood and energy. Gallery-quality canvas, no museum crowds.
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