Mahmud II enforced a new dress code consisting of a fez, frock coat, and fitted trousers to replace traditional forms of clothing that differentiated the rank and religion of each person.
August Jachmund’s 1890 Sirkeci Railroad Terminus for the Orient Express, for instance
The memory, meaning, and makers of Palestinian embroidery.
Palestinian tatreez patterns, thread colors, and adornments often express the makerâ
Looking at a handscroll that one has seen before is like visiting an old friend whom one has not seen for a while.
The colophons may comment on the quality of the painting, express the rhapsody (rarely
In Romantic art, nature—with its uncontrollable power, unpredictability, and potential for cataclysmic extremes—offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought.
contemporary fascination with the exoticism of the harem, albeit a purely imagined Orient
Description of the China: Through the Looking Glass galleries
Pictures Courtesy of Milestone Film & Video and British Film Institute Shanghai Express
Five case studies for select recent acquisitions demonstrate the varied and complex nature of provenance research at The Met.
Merz” to his new works that used ephemera, discarded papers, and found objects to express
Two Vessels Inscribed with a Poem on Wine (MMA 64.133.2 and British Museum ME OA 1938.11-12.1)These sophisticated vessels, inscribed with verses inviting one to drink, echo the close connection between wine drinking and literature in upper-class social practice of the medieval Islamic period
“The Iranian Bazm in Early Persian Sources.� Res Orientales 4 [Banquets d’Orient
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François de la Boullaye-Le Gouz publishes accounts of his travels to India and the Orient
Art of the First Cities surveys the evolution of art and culture in the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates and their impact on the emerging cities of the ancient world—from the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean across Central Asia and along the Gulf to the Indus Valley—during one of the most seminal and creative periods in history.
Great size expresses the power of both god and the divine king, as exemplified in
„Matisse: ‚La révélation m’est venue de l‘Orient‚,“ September 20, 1997–January
