Tag: Georg Macco
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01 Orientalist Painting, Georg Macco’s Bab Zuwayla, Cairo, with footnotes, #118
In the present painting the stand of the orange seller is placed just outside the Bab Zuwayla, the Southern Gate of Cairo’s Fatimid enclosure. Looking in through the archway, on the right one can see the Sabil-Kuttab of Nafisa Bayda (1796). On the left, there is an indistinct rendering of the facade of the Mosque-Mausoleum…