The Roses of Heliogabalus
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 to 1912), 1888
$235
Print check at 24 x 16 in: 461 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 7.7% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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The boy-emperor Heliogabalus, the story goes, once smothered his dinner guests under so many rose petals dropped from a false ceiling that some of them suffocated in the perfume. Alma-Tadema paints the fatal luxury at its height: the emperor reclining above in gold silk, watching from a safe distance as a soft pink avalanche of petals buries the revellers below. To get the petals right he had fresh roses shipped from the Riviera to his London studio every week for four months through the winter. The result is decadence rendered as pure beauty — sunlit marble, silk, and an endless fall of blossom. Sumptuous, sinister, and impossible to look away from.
- Maker
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 to 1912)
- Date
- 1888
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- Private collection
- Credit
- Private collection · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00661
| Picture | 24 x 16 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 25.6 x 17.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 923 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.7% |
| 18 x 12 in | 615 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.7% |
| 24 x 16 in | 461 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.7% |
| 30 x 20 in | 369 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.6% |
| 36 x 24 in | 307 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.7% |
| 60 x 40 in | 184 | Good | Trimmed 7.6% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 22% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 18% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 12,000 x 7,388 px, srgb, c2
- Tone
- Darks 39, lights 231 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 147.03
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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