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Early Life & Origins

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The Boy Who Was Supposed to Die: The Miracle of Lawrence Alma Tadema

Doctors gave him weeks to live. His family prepared his grave. But Lawrence Alma Tadema had a different plan. The incredible true story of his survival.

→Alma Tadema Artist: From the Gray North to the Golden South→Alma Tadema: The Story Behind the Name→The Gamble in Paris: How Lawrence Alma-Tadema Art Conquered the World→The Smoke and the Marble: Why Tadema Painted the Light
The Boy Who Was Supposed to Die: The Miracle of Lawrence Alma Tadema
The Boy Who Was Supposed to Die: The Miracle of Lawrence Alma Tadema
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1863: The Year Lawrence Alma-Tadema Found His Soul

Most honeymoons are about romance. In 1863, Lawrence Alma-Tadema's honeymoon was about destiny. How a trip to Italy changed art history.

1863: The Year Lawrence Alma-Tadema Found His Soul
1863: The Year Lawrence Alma-Tadema Found His Soul
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The War Refugee: How a Tadema Artist Changed British Painting

tadema artist: He didn't come to London for the scenery. He came to escape a war. How the Franco-Prussian conflict gave Britain its definitive classical painter.

→The Explosion at Regent's Park: How a Disaster Created a Palace
The War Refugee: How a Tadema Artist Changed British Painting
The War Refugee: How a Tadema Artist Changed British Painting
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Tadema, the Classical Painter Who Measured the Past

Why did a Victorian artist measure ruins with a ruler? Discover how Lawrence Alma-Tadema became the ultimate classical painter of his age by treating art as science.

→The Dirt and the Dream: The Artist Tadema in the Age of Excavation→The Silver Obsession: How a 19th-Century 'Clone' Fooled the World
Tadema, the Classical Painter Who Measured the Past
Tadema, the Classical Painter Who Measured the Past
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