Monday 19 November 2018

A Coign of Vantage(1895) - Lawrence Alma-Tadema




Three Roman women are watching the return of galley ships from a high corner or vantage point.  Coign is an old word for corner

Note the huge bronze statue.  I love the soft draping of the women's clothes.

My attention was drawn to this work by a huge doorstop of a book I got from the library – The Art Book from Phaidon Press.  Get it out if you have strong enough muscles.   There are 579 pages, each dedicated to one work by an artist.  The artists are in alpha order so you get interesting juxtapositions between modern art and old masters.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Your comments are most welcome. I have currently disabled anonymous comments due to unwanted spam. Cheers