Sappho and Alcaeus
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title:
Sappho and Alcaeus
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Sappho and Alcaeus is an 1881 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema. It is held by the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore. The painting measures 66 by 122 centimetres. It depicts a concert in the late 7th century BC, with the poet Alcaeus of Mytilene playing the kithara. In the audience is fellow Lesbian poet Sappho, accompanied by several of her female friends. Sappho is paying close attention to the performance, resting her arm on a cushion which bears a laurel wreath
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1881 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho_and_Alcaeus
date created:
2017-09-24T23:58:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T14:08:57Z
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