Philosophy at the Museum: Ottoman Art vs. Orientalist Fantasy
🇺🇸 New York,
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📅 PHILOSOPHY AT THE MUSEUM: OTTOMAN ART VS. ORIENTALIST FANTASY
Starts
Sep 12, 2026 11:00 PM
Ends
Sep 13, 2026 1:00 AM
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🇺🇸 New York
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States
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For centuries, Europe looked east and saw not the Ottoman Empire as it was, but as it wished to imagine it — a world of harems, sultans, and timeless splendor rendered in the sumpt...
For centuries, Europe looked east and saw not the Ottoman Empire as it was, but as it wished to imagine it — a world of harems, sultans, and timeless splendor rendered in the sumptuous brushwork of painters like Gérôme and Delacroix. This tour holds those images up against the art the Ottomans actually made: courtly miniatures, calligraphy, and Iznik ceramics governed by an entirely different visual logic, one of pattern, narrative clarity, and devotional purpose.
Moving through the Met's collection, we'll ask what happens when two traditions — one representing, one being represented — occupy…
Hosted by New York Philosophical Society
Moving through the Met's collection, we'll ask what happens when two traditions — one representing, one being represented — occupy…
Hosted by New York Philosophical Society
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