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"Focusing on travel images and cross-cultural exchange, examines interactions between the Ottoman Empire and Europeans from 1774 to 1839, highlighting mutual dependence and reciprocity"--Provided by publisher. In this volume, Elisabeth Fraser shows that artists and the works they created in the Mediterranean during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were informed by mutual dependence and reciprocity between European nations and the Ottoman Empire. Her rich exploration of this vibrant cross-cultural exchange challenges the dominant interpretation of European relations with the East during the period, revealing a shared world of fluid and long-sustained interactions. Voyagers to and from the Ottoman Empire documented their journeys in prints, paintings, and lavishly illustrated travelogues; many of these helped define Europe's self-identified role as heir to Ottoman civilizations and bolstered its presence in the Islamic Mediterranean and beyond. Fraser finds that these works illuminate not only how travelers' experiences aborad were more nuanced than the expansionist ideology with which they became associated, but also how these narratives depicted the vitality of Ottoman culture and served as extensions of Ottoman diplomacy. Ottomans were aware of and responded to European representations, using them to defend Ottoman culture and sovereignty. In embracing the art of both cultures and setting these works in a broader context, Fraser challenges the historiographical tradition that sees Ottoman artists adopting European modes of art in a one-sided process of "Europeanization." Theoretically informed and rigorously researched, this cross-cultural approach to European and Ottoman art sheds much-needed critical light on the widely disseminated travel images of the era - important cultural artifacts in their own right - and provides a fresh and inviting understanding of the relationships among cultures in the Mediterranean during an era of increasing European expansionism. ; from dust jacket.

Tourism --- Art --- History of Southern Europe --- journeys --- Turkish [culture or style] --- European --- artists [visual artists] --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Europe --- 094:910.4 --- 76 <56> --- 094:910.4 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen --- 76 <56> Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Levant. Klein-Azië. Asia Minor --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Levant. Klein-Azië. Asia Minor --- artistic relations

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The Allure of the Ancient investigates how the ancient Middle East was imagined and appropriated for artistic, scholarly, and political purposes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bringing together scholars of the ancient and early modern worlds, the volume approaches reception history from an interdisciplinary perspective, asking how early modern artists and scholars interpreted ancient Middle Eastern civilizations—such as Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia—and how their interpretations were shaped by early modern contexts and concerns. The volume’s chapters cross disciplinary boundaries in their explorations of art, philosophy, science, and literature, as well as geographical boundaries, spanning from Europe to the Caribbean to Latin America.

History of civilization --- Ancient history --- influence --- Ancient Middle Eastern --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Middle East --- Europe --- Civilization --- East and West --- Middle Easterners --- Middle Eastern influences --- Public opinion --- Middle Eastern influences. --- Intellectual life --- In literature. --- Asians --- Ethnology --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Thematology --- receptiegeschiedenis