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The Sultan's Italian Court Painter Fausto Zonaro
This book is dedicated to the life and works of Fausto Zonaro (1854-1929), an Italian artist best known for his paintings of life and history of the Ottoman Empire. The volume contains a foreword by the historian Philip Mansel, a summarized article on the artist's life, and excerpts from the personal diary of the artist's youngest sister, Leonia, which is presented with a front-note prepared by her great grandson, Giovanni Gaidoni. The diary contains reminiscences of Leonia's love, trust, and respect for her brother. It also highlights the deep affection Fausto felt for his family, but predominantly for his youngest sister. We witness the difficulties and sacrifices Fausto went through in hi...
Russian Orientalism
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Reconsidering Gérôme
An unprecedented reexamination of Gérôme's career and his place in art history.
The Orientalists
At the end of the nineteenth century, numerous painters succumbed to the charms of the Orient. Travel to distant lands was easier, and artists brought back voluptuous images filled with sun and colour. This title studies almost 150 painters, from Delacroix to Ziem. It features many lesser known masters and is suitable for collectors.
Istanbul Exchanges
"A vibrant artistic milieu emerged in the late-nineteenth century Istanbul that was extremely heterogeneous, including Ottoman, Ottoman-Armenian, French, Italian, British, Polish and Ottoman-Greek artists. Roberts analyzes the ways artistic output intersected with the broader political agenda of a modernizing Ottoman state. She draws on extensive original research, bringing together sources in Turkey, England, France, Italy, Armenia, Poland and Denmark. Five chapters each address a particular issue related to transcultural exchange across the east-west divide that is focused on a particular case study of art, artistic patronage, and art exhibitions in nineteenth-century Istanbul"--Provided by publisher.
Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press
How was the female body perceived in the popular culture of late nineteenth-century Spain? Using a wide array of images from popular magazines of the day, Lou Charnon-Deutsch finds that women were typically presented in ways that were reassuring to the emerging bourgeois culture. Charnon-Deutsch organizes the 190 images reproduced in this book into six broad categories, or &"fictions of the feminine&": she reads women's bodies as a romantic symbol of beauty or evil, as a privileged link with the natural order, as a font of male inspiration, as a mouthpiece of bourgeois mores, as a focalized point of male fear and desire, and as an eroticized expression of Spanish exoticism and political ambi...
The Accidental Palace
This book tells the story of Yıldız Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul’s urban memory. At its peak, however, Yıldız was a global city in miniature and the center of the empire’s vast bureaucratic apparatus. Following a chronological arc from 1795 to 1909, The Accidental Palace shows how the site developed from a rural estate of the queen mothers into the heart of Ottoman government. Nominally, the palace may have belonged to the rarefied realm of the Ottoman elite, but as Deniz Türker reveals, the development of the site was profoundly connec...
Many Ways of Speaking about the Self
Contributions originally presented at a conference held in Munich in 2007.
