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Exhibition Review
Mamluks, 1250–1517
07/2025 | 1468 | 167
Pages: 705–707
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Reviewer:
Gigante, Federica (Gigante, Federica)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
subjects:
Mamluks (people)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mamluks, 1250–1517 Musée du Louvre, Paris 30th April–28th July | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Descent from the Cross. Possibly Syria, first half of the 14th century. Slip-decorated earthenware with underglaze painting, diameter 31 cm. (Benaki Museum, Athens; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Shadowtheatre puppets depicting a ship and its crew. Egypt, possibly 15th century. Parchment, 65 by 46 cm. (Linden-Museum, Stuttgart; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Bottle decorated with lions in Chinese style. Egypt or Syria, mid- 14th century. Enamelled and gilded glass, height 39 cm. (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; exh. Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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Dāvūd Gürcü, Ottoman refugee and Girodet’s first Mamluk model
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 479-487
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Author:
Dowad, Thadeus (Dowad, Thadeus)
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artists:
Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis
dates:
1800-1809
museums and institutions:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States
subjects:
French art / Portraits / Orientalism / Mamluks (people) / Ottomans (people) / Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) / Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The revolt of Cairo, 21st October 1798, by Anne-Louis Girodet. 1810. Oil on canvas, 365 by 500 cm. (Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. Katchef Dahouth, by Anne-Louis Girodet. 1804. Oil on canvas, 144.7 by 133 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. Mustapha, by Anne-Louis Girodet. 1819. Oil on canvas, 59 by 46 cm. (Musée Girodet, Montargis; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Portrait of a Mamelouk, by Horace Vernet. 1810. Oil on canvas, 75 by 61.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6. Portrait of Jean Baptiste Belley, by Anne-Louis Girodet. 1797. Oil on canvas, 158 by 111 cm. (Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. Roustam Raza, by Jacques-Nicolas Paillot de Montabert. 1806. Oil on canvas, 152 by 125.5 cm. (Musée de l’Armée, Paris).
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Turbans in the Strozzi Chapel: Filippino Lippi and the Mamluk embassies to Florence
10/2020 | 1411 | 162
Pages: 860-864
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Author:
Cevizli Gatward, Antonia (Cevizli Gatward, Antonia)
Subjects
artists:
Lippi, Filippino / Mansueti, Giovanni di Niccolò / Carpaccio, Vittore
buildings:
Cappella Carafa, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, Italy / Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
dates:
1480-1489 / 1490-1499
media:
Frescoes
patrons:
Medici, Lorenzo de', il Magnifico, 1449–1492 / Strozzi, Filippo, 1428-1491
places:
Florence / Rome / Venice
subjects:
Mamluks (people) / Ottomans (people) / Turbans / Hats / Diplomats / Giraffes (animals) / Costume / Renaissance art / Italian art
subjects:
Dating
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail of The Assumption, by Filippino Lippi. 1488–93. Fresco. (Carafa Chapel, S. Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of St Philip’s expulsion of the dragon, by Filippino Lippi. 1487–1502. Fresco. (Strozzi Chapel, S. Maria Novella, Florence).
Attributed works:
4. The arrest and trial of St Mark, by Giovanni Mansueti. 1499. Oil on panel, 164 by 146 cm. (Fürstlich Gemäldegalerie, Liechtenstein Museum).
Attributed works:
5. St George baptising the pagans, by Vittore Carpaccio. 1507–08. Oil and tempera on canvas, 141 by 285 cm. (Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Ottomans besieging the Mamluks from Damascus. Ottoman, c.1521– 24. (From Selimname, Topkapı Sarayı Museum, Istanbul, MS. H. 1597-98, fol.235r; T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Milli Saraylar İdaresi Başkanlığı).