A Journey into the World of the Ottomans: The Catalogue: Exhibition Catalogue (reprint 2012) - Softcover

Olga Nefedova; Eveline Sint Nicolaas

9788857207667: A Journey into the World of the Ottomans: The Catalogue: Exhibition Catalogue (reprint 2012)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8857207668 ISBN 13: 9788857207667

Publisher: Skira Editore, 2011

On the occasion of Doha being a cultural capital of the Middle East in 2010 and Istanbul being a cultural capital of Europe, Doha Orientalist museum is holding a symbolic exhibition A Journey into the World of the Ottomans, accompanied by a catalogue. Major part of the illustrated exhibition artworks are to come from the Orientalist museum own collection, the Rijksmuseum, as well as other major collections. The exhibition will bring together artists from the sixteenth century onwards, including Bernardino Campi, Jacopo Ligozzi, Nicolas Rycks, Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, Jean-�tienne Liotard, Antoine Ignace Melling, Francesco Hayez, John Frederick Lewis, Walter Gould, Alberto Pasini, Germain Fabius Brest, Oskar Kokoschka, Nikolai Kalmikoff, Vanessa Hodgkinson and Bas Princen. The artworks selected are to illustrate the history of the orientalism development from the sixteenth to twenty first century, which throughout the years shaped the image of the Ottoman world in Europe, covering different genres of orientalist art.

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