Purs décors ? Arts de l'Islam, regards du XIXe siècle. Egypte Joined by the poet Eumolpus

Joined by the poet Eumolpus

allows us to get closer to the artist's creative process

he gained an incomparable knowledge of the Greek language

Israelites

Edition bilingue français-arabe

Purs décors ? Arts de l'Islam, regards du XIXe siècle. Egypte Joined by the poet EumolpusThe Islamic art collections of the Decorative Arts present a virtually exhaustive panorama of the history of these arts, both geographically and chronologically, with some of the most remarkable collections in the world. Eminently revealing of the history of Western taste, they were gathered between 1878 and 1920 by a small group of amateurs, dealers and collectors. They had a decisive influence on contemporary decorative arts and on the first