Slide 1 History The Prayer, 1877 Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847–1928), American © Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
Slide 2 History Ottoman helmet Gilt-copper, Turkey, about 1650 © Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
Slide 3 History Early portrait medal of Muhammad Shah Qajar (ruled 1834–1848), 1835–1840 Enamel, diamonds, gold © Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia Muzaffar al-Din Shah Qajar in coronation regalia, about 1900 Unknown Qajar artist Oil on canvas
Slide 4 History Photographs of Constantinople, about 1890 Pascal Sébah, Ottoman Albumen prints British Museum Sébah, a pioneering Ottoman photographer, opened the Empire’s first studio in Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in 1857. His photographs show how an Ottoman subject, rather than an outsider, looked at the city.
Slide 5 Art and Design Glazed and gilded ceramic, Iznik (Turkey), 1600–25 (top) Glazed ceramic, Veneto (Italy), 1629 British Museum Glazed ceramic, Iznik (Turkey), 1530–40 Glazed ceramic, Paris (France), around 1865 British Museum; © Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
Slide 6 Art and Design The Wool Spinners Rudolf Ernst (1854-1932), Austro-French © Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
Slide 7 Art and Design A Turkish woman with veil, 1585–1593 John White (c.1540–c.1593), American British Museum Portrait of a page in European dress, 1642–1666 Unknown Safavid artist, Persian This portrait deliberately blurs European and Middle Eastern identities, which became increasingly fixed in centuries to come. As Europeans developed new ways of visualising, identifying and disseminating information about the people they encountered across the world costume books became a popular way of classifying different groups according to their dress. Costume books long remained a way of picturing the Ottoman world. The presence of Europeans in Middle Eastern cities also provided local artists with the chance to indulge their own taste for the ‘exotic’ in portraits of European dandies and courtiers.
Slide 8 Art and Design The Princess Burns the Efrite to Death, 1914 from Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights Edmund Dulac (1882–1953), French / British British Museum These images were created as illustrations for different editions of the One Thousand and One Nights, a work of Middle Eastern origins, with later European additions to the text. Also known as the Arabian Nights, these tales have fuelled Orientalist visions since they were first translated into French in 1704. Over the last 300 years, this collection has been the inspiration for books, pantomimes, plays, songs and films.
Slide 9 PHSE and Citizenship The Snake Charmer, Ettore Simonetti (1857-1909) Watercolour on paper © Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
Slide 10 PHSE and Citizenship Portrait of Sir Austen Henry Layard in Bakhtiari dress, 6 April 1843 Count Amadeo Preziosi (1816-1882), Maltese British Museum Layard was prominent English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat best known for excavating Nimrud and Nineveh (Iraq).
Slide 11 PHSE and Citizenship Untitled from Women of Allah series, 1995 Shirin Neshat (born 1957), Iranian Gelatin silver print with handwritten calligraphy British Museum
Slide 12 PHSE and Citizenship Women of Morocco (#22a-c), 2005 Lalla Essaydi (born 1956), Moroccan Photographic prints British Museum Donated by Waterhouse & Dodd
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