Category: Orientalists
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Edwin Lord Weeks’ A cup of coffee, with footnotes, 82
Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) was an American artist. Weeks was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1849. His parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston, and as such they were able to finance their son’s youthful interest in painting and travelling. As a young man Weeks visited the Florida Keys…
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07 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists of the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, #11
Orientalism is a term that is used for the depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern cultures. It refers to the works of the Western artists on Oriental subjects, produced from their travels in Western Asia, during the 19th century. Depictions of Islamic “Moors” and “Turks” can be found in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art. A…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Maurice Bouviolle’s MARKET DAY IN GHARDAÏA, with footnotes, #81
Ghardaïa is the capital city of Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. It is a major centre of date production and the manufacture of rugs and cloths. Divided into three walled sectors, it is a fortified town. The name of Ghardaïa has its origins in a female saint named Daïa who lived in a cave (ghār) in the area before it…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Henri Adrien Tanoux, with footnotes, 80
Henri Adrien Tanoux ( Marseille , 18 October as as 1865 – Paris , 1923 ) was a French painter. He dedicated himself to landscapes , nudes and oriental scenes .He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris where he was a pupil of Léon Bonnat . He exhibited his works regularly at the Paris Salon…
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19 Works, December 30th. is Osman Hamdi Bey’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #257
A total of 17 figures, 16 people and a dog, are skillfully depicted in front of the Yeşil Mosque in Bursa. The painting, which reveals the fine workmanship of the Ottoman architecture and the detail in the decorations, is a document about the Ottoman daily life. It is stated in the painting that Osman Hamdi…
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24 Works, December 9th. is Leopold Müller’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #246
Leopold Carl Müller (9 December 1834–4 August 1892) was an Austrian genre painter noted for his Orientalist works. Born in Dresden to Austrian, he was a pupil of Karl von Blaas and of Christian Ruben at the Academy in Vienna. Obliged to support his family after his father’s death, he worked eight years as an…
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21 Works, October 24rd. is Eugène Fromentin’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #226
Exhibited to great acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1864, Windstorm on the Esparto Plains of the Sahara remains one of the most enduring and striking compositions in all Orientalist art. The five riders and their mounts are depicted near Laghouat on the fringe of the Sahara in Algeria, although the precise setting could hardly…
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19 Works, September 18th. is Fausto Zonaro”s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #205
The Dervish ceremony was painted in Turkey, shortly before the artist returned back to Italy in 1910. Istanbul was for Zonaro the place where his artistic style evolved and matured, and the canvases that he painted during these years are probably the most interesting works of his artistic career. Zonaro grew well accustomed to the…
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16 Works, July 9th. is Adolf Schreyer’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #186
Adolf Schreyer (July 9, 1828 Frankfurt-am-Main — July 29, 1899 Kronberg im Taunus) was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting… Please follow link for full post
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18 Works, Today, June 5th. is Vincenzo Marinelli’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #154
In this work there is an atmosphere of fascinating exoticism, given by the depiction of distant lands lived with full romantic sensitivity by the artist. Marinelli later travelled first to Greece, where he worked for King Otto of Bavaria. He then went to Egypt, where he carried out works for the Viceroy Said Pasha. He…
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17 Works, Today, March 3rd. is artist Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #062
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (March 3, 1803 — August 22, 1860) was a French painter noted for his Orientalist works… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, # 67, Adam Styka, Washerwomen at Biskra
Biskra, also called (after 1981) Beskra, town, northeastern Algeria, on the northern edge of the Sahara. It is the centre of the Zab (Ziban) group of oases south of a wide, open depression between the Aurès Massif and the Tell Atlas Mountains. More on BiskraAdam Styka , born April 7, 1890 and died September 23, 1959 in Doylestown…
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Georges Louis Poilleux-Saint-Ange, The Escape, 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #61
George Louis Poilleux Saint-Ange was a French painter born June 20, 1853 in Paris and died in 1911 at the age of 58 years.He was a member of the French School and student of Isidore Pils , being influenced by his style. Poilleux Sant’Angelo is oriented on military painting , the history of painting and…
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Jean-Léon Gérôme, RIDERS CROSSING THE DESERT 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #61
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from…
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Victor Pierre Huguet, AT THE WADI 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #60
Wadi is the Arabic term referring to a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season. Victor Pierre Huguet, born Lude the 1 st May 1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French, landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and received advice from Fromentin in…
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Eugène Fromentin, WINDSTORM 01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, #59
Esparto, halfah grass, or esparto grass, is a fiber produced from two species of perennial grasses of north Africa and southern Europe. It is used for crafts, such as cords, basketry, and espadrilles. Stipa tenacissima and Lygeum spartum are the species used to produce esparto. More on Esparto Eugène Fromentin (October 24, 1820 – August 27, 1876) was…
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Circle of August Theodor Schoefft; Crossing the Tigris 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #58
The Tigris is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties into the Persian Gulf. August Theodor Schoefft (Hungarian, 1809-1888) was the son of a local portrait painter August Theodor Schoefft, born to German parents who…
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Victor-Pierre Huguet, SETTLEMENT AT DAWN 01 Painting by Orientalist Artist Nathaniel Sichel , with footnotes, 57
Victor Pierre Huguet , born Lude the 1 st May 1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French, landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and received advice from Fromentin in Paris. In 1852, aged 17, he traveled to Egypt, then to Crimea where he accompanied Durand-Brager before…
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Victor-Pierre Huguet, CAVALIERS ON A PATH 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #56
Victor Pierre Huguet , born Lude the 1 st May 1835 and died in Paris August 16, 1902, was a French, landscape and genre painter.. He was a pupil of Emile Loubon in Marseille and received advice from Fromentin in Paris. In 1852, aged 17, he traveled to Egypt, then to Crimea where he accompanied Durand-Brager before…
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Nathaniel Sichel; Portrait of an Egyptian Woman 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #55
Nathaniel Sichel’s artistic career began at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, where he was trained in the academic tradition by Julius Schrader. He continued his studies in Paris at the École des Beaux arts where he won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1864 with a painting entitled Joseph explains the dreams of the…
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