01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 16 - With Footnotes

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (1836–1912) 

In the Tepidarium, c. 1881

Oil on canvas

24.2 × 33 cm (9.5 × 13 in)

Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Village, United Kingdom

The tepidarium was the warm bathroom of the Rome,  heated by an underfloor heating system.The specialty of a tepidarium is the pleasant feeling of constant radiant heat which directly affects the human body from the walls and floor.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship.

Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky.

Though admired during his lifetime for his draftsmanship and depictions of Classical antiquity, his work fell into disrepute after his death, and only since the 1960s has it been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century English art. More on Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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