#orientalist

[moodboardmix]

Casa Vicens, Barcelona, Spain, 1883-1888,

Commissioned as a summer home for Manuel Vicens y Montaner, a stock market broker, this modernist building is considered one of Gaudí's first major projects and masterpieces.

The work belongs to the orientalist style, similar to Neo-Mudéjar architecture, although interpreted in Gaudí’s own personal way, with a uniqueness that only he knew how to add to his projects.

Architecte : Antoni Gaudi,

David Cardelús Photography

[illustratus]

The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt by David Roberts

[srednod]

Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant On the Roofs c. 1880

[feminineforms]

Francisco Masriera, The Gypsy Girl, 1897

[postcard-from-the-past]

Moroccan woman on a French orientalist vintage postcard

[thebellekeys]

"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice."

- Orientalism by Edward Said

[diemelusine]

Catherine II of Russia strolling in the park at Tsarskoye Selo (1794) by Vladimir Borovikovsky. Tretyakov Gallery.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

Edwin Longsden Long Ready for the Bath