A world-famous 19th-Century art movement was responsible for these depictions of the Arab world being imprinted on your mind. And with Palestine as the birthplace of Christianity, the Middle East was a cultural focal point, providing a constant supply of Christian envoys and pilgrims. It was not uncommon in Orientalist art that props from different countries and time periods across the Arabic or Islamic world would be used anachronistically side by side. I had a lovely hammam experience in the Middle East. Is western art really ‘inspired’ by the East?

Source: The North Africa Journal October 17, 2019 23:26 UTC