The subject range of this volume of essays on late Victorian Orientalism explores nineteenth-century modes of art which position themselves as instruments of knowledge of the Orient. The contributors ...

It's been argued that art from the Orientalism period, mostly from the 19th Century and created for a European audience, subtly asserted Western superiority and pandered to the male gaze.

The manner in which this split has been imagined and represented in Western civilization has been the subject of intense cross-disciplinary scrutiny, much of it under the rubric of "orientalism." This ...

Lady Montagu’s portrait is only one among the 85 masterpieces that will adorn the walls of the Sharjah Art Museum for the ‘Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting Exhibition’.