NEW YORK (Reuters) - An iconic 19th Century painting depicting an Ottoman Empire reserve soldier and his hunting dogs is generating buzz ahead of an auction next week, due to a rise in popularity of ...

“Near East to Far West,” an exhibition at Colorado’s Denver Art Museum, intentionally shows viewers a false depiction of history. The exhibition is designed to make us reckon with colonialism in the ...

That painting, which appears on the cover of Said’s book, provides a more titillating and overt example of how the genre depicted faraway places as exotic and strange. Part of Smith College’s interest ...

LONDON — The British Museum’s Inspired by the East: How the Islamic World Influenced Western Art begins with a lamentation about Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928). Despite being “… well-known and ...

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There has recently been a resurgence of insisting on regarding imperial history and colonization as forces for good and positive exchange in response to calls for decolonization. An accompanying ...

One of the by-products of the wealth and development in the Middle East has been a renewed focus on Orientalist art. On Friday, Sotheby’s will hold an auction of 19th-century European paintings. For ...

LONDON, 22 April (BelTA - Anadolu) - This spring, the art world turns its gaze on London, where one of the most significant rediscoveries in recent Orientalist art will go under the hammer at one of ...

Precious records of the history of the Islamic world, Orientalist paintings provide a unique window into a realm that has forever changed, capturing in technicolour detail every aspect of life in the ...