February 23, 2010

Orientalism | John Singer Sargent Redux


Mavi Boncuk |

JOHN SINGER SERGENT [1]


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1891 (35 years old) January: he rents a studio in Cairo Egypt, paints the nude Egyptian Girl, and travels up the Nile to Luxor. April: finds him in Greece and he goes to Constantinople, Turkey.


A Mosque, Cairo, 1891

Interior and dome of the Hagia Sophia, 1891

[1] John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American painter, and a leading portrait painter of his era. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings.

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