Volait, Mercedes

À l'orientale. Collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic art and architecture in the 19th and early 20…

by Volait, Mercedes, Giese, Francine, Varela Braga, Ariane

fromArts and archaeology of the Islamic world

0 Type: Book

The present volume offers a collection of essays that examine the mechanisms and strategies of collecting, displaying and appropriating islamic art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many studies in this book concentrate on lesser known collections of islamic art, …

À l'orientale: collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic …

by Volait, Mercedes, Giese, Francine, Varela Braga, Ariane

fromArts and archaeology of the Islamic world

0 Type: Book

"The present volume offers a collection of essays that examine the mechanisms and strategies of collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many studies in this book concentrate on lesser known collections of Islamic art,…

Cairo , with 260,000 inhabitants on the eve of the modern period , was the second-largest city in the Ottoman Empire after Istanbul. In 1798, Egypt, and with it the city of Cairo, were invaded by the French. The occupation, which lasted until 1801, was met with recurrent popular…