Strictly speaking, he was spoiled before he was born, because he was conceived, brought up and grew up in a social paradigm, which made the contemporaries feel creepy. His name has become synonymous with perversity, cruelty and blind pursuit of lust. Ignorance of the story does not interfere with getting an aesthetic pleasure from the canvas, but in order to understand the main subject’s train of thought, you still need to know the story a little.Ĭontinuing the way of Nero and Caligula, the 23rd Roman emperor Heliogabalus was spoiled from childhood. The scent of roses (yes, that’s just such a train of thought) would suffocate the guests.
It described Roman emperor Heliogabalus during a feast, who ordered the murder of his enemy guests, strewing them with roses from the ceiling. As a basis, Alma-Tadema took the subject that is dubious from a historical point of view, Historia Augusta. The work in pastel colours with predominant pink is about death, and, to put it more clearly, about multi death, gang murder. Keeping to the standard of the compositional golden section (the aspect ratio of the canvas is 132x213 cm), this canvas is filled, according to some, with the spirit of human suffering, and according to others, it is a historical and literary fake.
The Roses of Heliogabalus is a 1888 painting of the English artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
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