A l'Orientale: Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

by Francine Giese (Editor), Mercedes Volait (Editor), Ariane Varela Braga (Editor)

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 si�cle, en mettant l'accent sur la figure d'Henri Moser Charlottenfels et des collections m�connues situ�es en Europe central, et au-del�.

240 pages, ebook

Published November 4, 2019