Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian)
- Exhibition: De Delacroix à Kandinsky, L'orientalism En Europe
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) Following recent exhibitions of British orientalist painting in London and of the work of French orientalist painter Jean- Léon Gérôme in Paris, the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels has had the...
- Museum Of Islamic Art Centenary
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Now that refurbishment is complete, would-be visitors to the museum need wait no longer to roam the spacious galleries showcasing its wooden, metal, ceramic, glass, rock crystal and textile objects from across the Islamic...
- Warps And Wefts 2009; Patterns Of Moon, Patterns Of Sun
Saudi Aramco World (Carol Bier; Paul Lunde) Textiles created in Islamic societies before the industrial revolution represented the most advanced stages of technological development for their time. Less than a century after the Arab conquests, patterned...
- Cairo's Hidden Gems
Egypt Daily Star (Nigel J Hetherington) A lot of us are aware of the magnificently preserved monuments of the pharaohs, the splendours of Islamic Cairo, and the beautiful Red Sea corals, but how many of us are aware that Egypt has one of the largest collections...
- Prisse D'avennes
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/07/prisse.html The Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with a verbal portrait of Prisse D'Avennes, who travelled Egypt in the late 1800s: "Of the hundreds of 19th-century Orientalists – those...
Egypt
Paris: capital of Islamic design
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian)
The magnificent setting of the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris is presently the backdrop for Purs décors? Arts de l'Islam, regards du XIX me si cle, a survey exhibition on the influence of Islamic art on late 19th and early 20th-century European artists and designers.
Since the exhibition is in Paris, the focus is on mainly French collectors, designers and manufacturers. But the theme of the exhibition -- the ways in which elements from Islamic art and design were appropriated by European artists and designers hungry for new ideas -- has a larger European resonance. . . .
The architectural remains of southern Spain provided a point of entry for Europeans interested in Islamic design. From the 1860s onwards, however, and particularly after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Egypt replaced Spain as the rendez-vous for all those taken up with the growing European craze for Islamic art and architecture. Artists and researchers like the Frenchman Emile Prisse d'Avennes made their way to Cairo's traditional areas, producing plans and pattern books for "Egyptophiles" in Europe. Among such works are Prisse d'Avennes's well-known volumes on the Islamic art and architecture of Cairo, and on Islamic design more generally, published in the later 19th century.
- Exhibition: De Delacroix à Kandinsky, L'orientalism En Europe
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) Following recent exhibitions of British orientalist painting in London and of the work of French orientalist painter Jean- Léon Gérôme in Paris, the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels has had the...
- Museum Of Islamic Art Centenary
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Now that refurbishment is complete, would-be visitors to the museum need wait no longer to roam the spacious galleries showcasing its wooden, metal, ceramic, glass, rock crystal and textile objects from across the Islamic...
- Warps And Wefts 2009; Patterns Of Moon, Patterns Of Sun
Saudi Aramco World (Carol Bier; Paul Lunde) Textiles created in Islamic societies before the industrial revolution represented the most advanced stages of technological development for their time. Less than a century after the Arab conquests, patterned...
- Cairo's Hidden Gems
Egypt Daily Star (Nigel J Hetherington) A lot of us are aware of the magnificently preserved monuments of the pharaohs, the splendours of Islamic Cairo, and the beautiful Red Sea corals, but how many of us are aware that Egypt has one of the largest collections...
- Prisse D'avennes
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/07/prisse.html The Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with a verbal portrait of Prisse D'Avennes, who travelled Egypt in the late 1800s: "Of the hundreds of 19th-century Orientalists – those...