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‘A Reading from Homer’ for an audience of young and beautiful<br />

people, with the use of a parchment scrol, a ‘volumen’.<br />

Classicist painting by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema (1838-1912) of<br />

a reading session, as imagined by the painter in 1885.<br />

Source: Original painting, oil on canvas, 91.8 x 183.5 cm, in Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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