The Oriental Obsession: Islamic Inspiration in British and American Art and Architecture 1500-1920 by John Sweetman

The Oriental Obsession: Islamic Inspiration in British and American Art and Architecture 1500-1920

Cambridge Studies in the History of Art

John Sweetman

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The Oriental Obsession begins in the early sixteenth century with Cardinal Wolsey waiting two years for the delivery of sixty rare Turkey carpets from Venice, and ends in the age of the great exhibitions and emporia on both sides of the Atlantic, ...

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