Sunday, August 19, 2012

Orientalists visual representation of the slave girls of the Near East 2

These representation depicting indoors setting and laid back women of the East lead to the general stereotyping of them as objectified, vain, lazy and submissive. And made explicit by some of the artworks titles.



rudolf-ernst-austrian-painter-1854-1932-les-captives

juan-gimenez-y-martin-spanish-painter-1858-1901-in-the-harem

francesco-ballesio-italian-1860-1923-e28093-an-idle-afternoon

franz-xavier-simm-in-the-harem

gyula-tornai-hungarian-1861-1928-in-the-harem

francis-gabriel-lepaulle-french-1804-1886-e28093-the-pasha-and-his-harem

oliver-dennett-grover-american-painter-1861-1927-e28093-harem-girl


antonio-gargiullo-italian-19-th-century-in-the-harem



eugene-pierre-francois-giraud-spanish-1846-1873-e28093-interior-of-a-harem

ferencz-franz-eisenhut-hungary-painter-1857-1903-the-pasha_s-concubine


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