Tag: Orientalists
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22 Orientalist Paintings, with foot notes, #6
The Orient—including present-day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa—exerted its allure on the Western artist’s imagination centuries prior to the turn of the nineteenth century… Please follow link for full post
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20 Paintings by 19th Century Swiss, German and French Orientalist Artists, with foot notes #6
Sultan Mohammed II, famous conqueror who besieged and captured Constantinople in 1453, was an avid collector of works of art. He brought the famous Venetian painter Gentile Bellini (circa 1429–1507) in Constantinople, on the occasion of the peace agreements signed between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire in 1479. On that occasion, the…
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08 Orientalist Paintings by Artists from the 19th Century, with footnotes, 18
Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter,1844 – 1913 Scheherazade Oil on canvas Height: 151 cm (59.45 in.), Width: 211.5 cm (83.27 in.) Private collection Scheherazade is a character and the storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights. This book includes the tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba and many more. The story goes that Shahryar found out one day…
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