Flower was a very favorite theme for artists. The Roses of Heliogabalus which painted by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema fully confirmed the judgment. This painting was based on the history of the notorious Roman emperor Heliogabalus who was very handsome, and renamed for his adoration for Phoenician god of sex Elagabalu.

This painting was one of the artist’s three masterpieces that painted for John Elton’s commissioned. It was a time when this famous civil engineers in charge of moving the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park to the suburbs Sydenham. He was very rich and has a large number of acquisitions

emperor on the throne and sat next to his mother and minions, observing the diners suffered by the petals. In this painting, Alma-Tadema integrated the man and rose petals together, which manifested his superb skill.