posts from @Fel-Temp-Reparatio tagged #Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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kinomoto
@kinomoto

The Sea of Ice, by Caspar David Friedrich, 1824


Hemlocks
@Hemlocks

The Dog
Francisco Goya
ca. 1819–1823


Fel-Temp-Reparatio
@Fel-Temp-Reparatio

The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

The full context for what you're looking at: according to the Historia Augusta1, the emperor Heliogabalus once had flower petals poured on some of his dinner guests until they were smothered to death. I feel like in this depiction, that fucker knows exactly what they're doing.


  1. This source is notoriously unreliable and may have been intended as a parody of historical texts, sort of an ancient version of 1066 and All That, so take the historical veracity of this story with a massive grain of salt.