This French painter is seen by many as the father of Orientalist painting, an art movement during the period of the Second Empire in France, depicting the Middle East in a highly romanticised way. Very popular from the middle to the end of the 19th century.Gérôme painted many wonderful pictures of odalisks and eunuchs, of janissaries and palace guards, the interiors of mosques, harems and hamams, but my favourite is this one. It is called Arabes Traversent Le Désert, Arabs Crossing the Desert.
Do click the image to see it in much higher resultion. It has such unbelievabe atmosphere.
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