À l’orientale: collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic art and architecture in the 19th and early 20th centuries

edited by Francine Giese, Mercedes Volait, Ariane Varela Braga

Brill 2020 Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World volume 14

Foreword vii
Albert Lutz

Acknowledgements viii List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors xiv
Honoring Henri Moser Charlottenfels 1
Roger Nicholas Balsiger

Introduction: Islamic Art and Architecture Exposed 8
Francine Giese, Mercedes Volait, and Ariane Varela Braga

Part 1
Islamic Taste in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Safavid Revival in Persian Miniature Painting: Renewal, Imitation and Source of Inspiration 15
Axel Langer

«De véritables merveilles d’exécution»: Les vitraux du fumoir arabe d’Henri Moser 28
Sarah Keller

L’art islamique et la fabrique de l’Histoire des musulmans de Sicile de Michele Amari 39
Hélène Guérin

Orientalisme versus orientalité: La nouvelle appréciation des arts de l’Islam en Pologne au début du xxe siècle 48
Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wójcik

Part 2
Appropriation, Reuse and Eclecticism
Appropriating Damascus Rooms: Vincent Robinson, Caspar Purdon Clarke and Commercial Strategy in Victorian London 65
Moya Carey

Le remploi de grands décors mamelouks et ottomans dans l’œuvre construit d’Ambroise Baudry en Égypte et en France 82
Mercedes Volait

International Fashion and Personal Taste: Neo-Islamic Style Rooms and Orientalizing Scenographies in Private Museums 92
Francine Giese

Part 3
Museums and International Exhibitions
8 Carpets and Empire: The 1891 Exhibition at the Handelsmuseum in Vienna 111
Barbara Karl

Henri Moser as Commissioner General of the Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris 124
Ágnes Sebestyén

1Samarcande au nord et à l’ouest : Appropriation(s) de l’architecture timouride à Saint-Pétersbourg et à Berne 137
Katrin Kaufmann

1Tashkent in St. Petersburg: The Constructed Image of Central Asia in Russia’s Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Exhibitions 151

Inessa Kouteinikova

Part 4
Collectors and Networks
“Troppo amanti degli oggetti orientali”? : Ferdinando Panciatichi Ximenes d’Aragona, a Collector of Islamic Art in Nineteenth-Century Florence 165
Ariane Varela Braga

The Arab Room of Achille Vertunni: Islamic Art in the Streets of Rome 177
Valentina Colonna

“Our aim is to perform something that remains after we are gone”: The Oriental Collection Henri Moser Charlottenfels at Bernisches Historisches Museum 189
Alban von Stockhausen

Yakov Smirnov’s Photo Collection: The Orient in XIX-Century Photography 201
Maria Medvedeva

Who’s Who 213
Index of Persons 219
Index of Places 222

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