LAURENCE ALMA-TADEMA 1836-1912 Nationality - Dutch-born English

The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888)

Oil on Canvas

132.7 cm x 214.4cm

The painting shows a group of diners at a banquet, being swamped by drifts of pink rose petals falling from a false ceiling above. The Roman emperor Elagabalus reclines on a platform behind them, wearing a golden robe and a tiara.

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