This Feels Like Shitposting Given The Subject Matter - Tumblr Posts

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema The roses of heliogabalus 1880s 1880s art fine art romatic roses pink roses late victorian era victorian art late victorian art romatic academia this feels like shitposting given the subject matter 'unpopular painter creates image of unpopular emperor's lavish and irresponsibly luxurious banquet' *or empress' lavis and irresponsibly luxurious banquet! it's hard to tell when the person in question has been dead for more than two millennia and was also systematically erased from history and was also unpopular enough that people might be incentivised to lie and roman historians were by and large full of shit anyway (no such thing as an unbiased account of history? sure but roman historians didn't even fucking try like c'mon guys) not that later historians were any less shitty about her also alma-tadema is the epitome of ~aethetic~ and i for one truly appreciate that