Barcelona celebrates the legacy of Catalonia’s greatest Orientalist, Marià Fortuny, as the National Museum of Catalan Art exhibits 50 of his prints, some of them never put on show before "Ask any art ...

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 ...

The discipline of art history lays claim to a neutral, impartial, apolitical territory, which views the sphere of art as being quite separate from the sphere of politics. Tawadros challenges this ...

At today’s “The Black Exotic: Representing Blacks in 19th-Century Orientalist Art,” University of Maryland, College Park curator Dr. Adrienne L. Childs discusses how images of blacks by major ...

Orientalist Masterpiece by Osman Hamdi Bey to Come to Auction at Bonhams London – Cami Kapisinda (At the Mosque Door), a major work by Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910) leads Bonhams' 19th Century Paintings ...

Paul Elie Dubois was a French painter best known for his depictions of Algiers and its local culture and people. Travelling deep into the Sahara desert on painting excursions, Dubois was considered an ...

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 ...

Étienne Dinet born March 28, 1861 in Paris, city where he died December 24, 1929, is a French painter and lithographer. He is one of the major representatives of the orientalist movement. Born into a ...

Léon Auguste Adolphe Belly, born in Saint-Omer on April 18, 1827 and died in Paris on March 24, 1877, was a French orientalist painter. Léon Belly is the son of Nicolas Joseph Belly, polytechnician ...