Full Description
The present volume offers an overview of collecting and displaying Islamic art during the long nineteenth century. A section of the volume focuses on the figure of the Swiss collector Henri Moser Charlottenfels. Special attention is given to little-known collections in Eastern Europe and beyond.
L'ouvrage fournit un panorama du collectionnisme d'art islamique au cours du long XIXe siècle, en mettant l'accent sur la figure d'Henri Moser Charlottenfels et des collections méconnues situées en Europe central, et au-delà.
Contents
Foreword
Albert Lutz
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Honoring Henri Moser Charlottenfels
Roger Nicholas Balsiger
Introduction: Islamic Art and Architecture Exposed
Francine Giese, Mercedes Volait, and Ariane Varela Braga
Part 1: Islamic Taste in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
1 Safavid Revival in Persian Miniature Painting: Renewal, Imitation and Source of Inspiration
Axel Langer
2 « De véritables merveilles d'exécution » : Les vitraux du fumoir arabe
Sarah Keller
3 L'art islamique et la fabrique de l'Histoire des musulmans de Sicile de Michele Amari
Hélène Guérin
4 Orientalisme versus orientalité : La nouvelle appréciation des arts de l'Islam en Pologne au début du XXe siècle
Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wójcik
Part 2: Appropriation, Reuse and Eclecticism
5 Appropriating Damascus Rooms: Vincent Robinson, Caspar Purdon Clarke and Commercial Strategy in Victorian London
Moya Carey
6 Le remploi de grands décors mamelouks et ottomans dans l'œuvre construit d'Ambroise Baudry en Égypte et en France
Mercedes Volait
7 International Fashion and Personal Taste: Neo-Islamic Style Rooms and Orientalizing Scenographies in Private Museums
Francine Giese
Part 3: Museums and International Exhibitions
8 Carpets and Empire: The 1891 Exhibition at the Handelsmuseum in Vienna
Barbara Karl
9 Henri Moser as Commissioner General of the Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris
Ágnes Sebestyén
10 Samarcande au nord et à l'ouest : Appropriation(s) de l'architecture timouride à Saint-Pétersbourg et à Berne
Katrin Kaufmann
11 Tashkent in St. Petersburg: The Constructed Image of Central Asia in Russia's Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Exhibitions
Inessa Kouteinikova
Part 4: Collectors and Networks
12 "Troppo amanti degli oggetti orientali"? : Ferdinando Panciatichi Ximenes d'Aragona, a Collector of Islamic Art in Nineteenth-Century Florence
Ariane Varela Braga
13 The Arab Room of Achille Vertunni: Islamic Art in the Streets of Rome
Valentina Colonna
14 "Our aim is to perform something that remains after we are gone": The Oriental Collection Henri Moser Charlottenfels at Bernisches Historisches Museum
Alban von Stockhausen
15 Yakov Smirnov's Photo Collection: The Orient in Nineteenth-Century Photography
Maria Medvedeva
Who's Who
Index of Persons
Index of Places