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Mediterranean encounters: artists between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839


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"Focusing on travel images and cross-cultural exchange, examines interactions between the Ottoman Empire and Europeans from 1774 to 1839, highlighting mutual dependence and reciprocity"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Reading Choiseul in the gaps of the orientalist archive -- In the shadow of les grands : Cassas's orientalist self-fashioning -- The translator's art : Mouradgea d'Ohsson, Ottoman dragoman in Paris -- Miniatures in black and white : Melling's Istanbul -- Skin of nation, body of empire : Louis Dupré in Ottoman Greece -- A painter's renunciation : Delacroix in North Africa.

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    University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017

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    1774-1839


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    • 0271073209
    • 9780271073200

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