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An Arab Family in the Desert
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A Central and Western Desert style acrylic on canvas painting that utilises the dot method which was brought to the attention of the wider public through the circulation of artwork...
Arab Rider
Arab Rider
The taste for Oriental and exotic themes had spread across France during the 18th century and became more pronounced with the advent of Romanticism. Delacroix was influenced by thi...
Majnun visited by his father in the desert (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Layla and Majnun by Nizami
Majnun visited by his father in the desert (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Layla and Majnun by Nizami
In the tragic romance between Layla and Qays (later known as majnun—“mad” or “possessed”), the two met and fell in love as schoolchildren. Layla’s father rejected Qays’s marriage p...
Saint John the Baptist Preaching in the Desert
Saint John the Baptist Preaching in the Desert
Pier Francesco Mola moved to Rome with his family in 1616. Little is known about his initial training but it is thought that he made two trips to the north of Italy, the first betw...
Illustrated Manuscript of Layla and Majnun by Hamdi
Illustrated Manuscript of Layla and Majnun by Hamdi
This is a small illustrated copy of Hamdi’s Layla and Majnun. Hamdi (d. 1503) was an Ottoman poet who wrote his Layla and Majnun in Turkish in 1499 after the famous Persian work of...