Painting and Sculpture

A Reading from Homer

A Reading from Homer (sometimes Listening to Homer) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1885 by the English artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema. It depicts an imaginary festival scene from ancient Greece with youth reading poetry to a small audience on a marble balcony overlooking the sea. The painting has been in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1924.

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• ▸Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert
• ▸Congregation Dorshei Emet
• ▸Charles Albert on the Balcony of Casa Greppi

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