Issues concerning the visual influences late nineteenth-century painter, Lawrence Alma-Tadema had on Gabriele D'Annunzio, are discussed, with particular focus on D'Annunzio's word-painting of feminine beauty.
The focus of this article is on the visual influence of the Anglo-Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema on Gabriele D'Annunzio in the 1880s and 1890s. Dealing primarily with D'Annunzio's journalistic pieces, it examines the depiction of feminine beauty and the way in which this was adopted by ...