Tag: Almeh
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03 Orientalist Paintings, Dance of the Almeh, with footnotes, #100
The title of this painting refers to the Arabic word analeim, meaning learned woman, which originally applied to professional female improvisers of songs and poems. By 1850, the term meant virtually any woman dancer. Their alluring dances, accompanied as shown here by musician playing a two-stringed cello. European travelers came to think of these dances…
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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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Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1847 – 1928, AMERICAN Almeh Flirting With An Armenian Policeman in Cairo 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 18 – With Footnotes
Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1847 – 1928, AMERICAN Almeh Flirting With An Armenian Policeman in Cairo Oil on canvas 55.5 cm (21.85 in.), Width: 46 cm (18.11 in.) Private collection Almeh (Egyptian Arabic) was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily,…
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