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The Victorian Classicists
The 19th century British painters like Alma-Tadema, Godwin, Lord Leighton, and Waterhouse fueled their interest in the ancient world with influences from the Pre-Raphaelite romanticism of a vanished past.
The rediscovery and excavations in Pompeii, and Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, helped fuel a fascination with the ancient world in the 19th century, particularly in England. Allied to influences from the Pre-Raphaelites, they painted the ancient world as they thought it might have been - or wished it to have been. Artists ranging from Alma-Tadema to Lord Leighton made a fashionable cult of ancient Greece and Rome until the First World War made their romantic time-traveling unfashionable.
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