Spring (Alma-Tadema painting)

Spring is an 1894 oil on canvas painting by the Anglo Dutch artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema, showing an imagined procession of women, children and musicians descending a flower strewn marble stairway between classical buildings, accompanied by a bearded priest, attendants carrying religious objects and silver statues of satyrs, in a scene that blends the Victorian custom of May Day flower gathering with an invented vision of a Roman spring festival rather than any single historical event. Alma-Tadema spent four years on the painting, which measures about 178.4 by 80.3 centimetres and is held at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; its procession scene is said to have inspired the triumphal entry sequence in the 1934 film Cleopatra directed by Cecil B. DeMille. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/