Title

The Women Of Amphissa, 1887. Creator: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

Caption

The Women Of Amphissa, 1887. Followers of Bacchus, the god of wine, awaken in the marketplace of Amphissa, Greece, where they have wandered from their home in Phocis during a night of ritual dancing. Amphissa and Phocis are at war, but the women of Amphissa graciously offer the bacchantes nourishment and protection. The painting illustrates an event recorded by the Greek historian Plutarch, which Alma-Tadema staged as a lesson in charity for his Victorian audience.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A24_049

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

75,4Mb (3,6Mb) / 21,1in x 13,9in / 6315 x 4171 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors female women woman people arts painting country market art trade British museum color Greek Greece marketplace location Victorian century Britain waking waking up concept awakening mythology roman mythology art museum oil Painting Colour 19th century Museum of Art Ancient Greece Greek mythology 1880s Ancient Greek market place nineteenth century maenad TGN outside Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema Laurens Alma-Tadema Laurens Alma Tadema Lawrence Alma-Tadema Plutarch Bacchante Alma-Tadema Lawrence Sir Alma-Tadema Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Lawrence Alma Tadema Lawrence Oil on canvas Bacchantes wakening Clark Art Institute Heritage Art Lawrence Alma Tadema Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus 19th-century Bacchant Bacchants Lourens Alma Tadema Amphissa