The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
The Roses of Heliogabalus
Guests smothered under a cascade of rose petals.
- Work
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabalus
- Artist / creator
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema (British, 1836–1912)
- Origin & date
- Britain, 1888
- Held by
- Private collection
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 30x40 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
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.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Private collection’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
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