Please do enlarge this thumb for
exquisite detail.
The Whirling Derishes by Jean-Leon
Gerome
Oil on canvas.
Many artists, especially those from Great Britain
were amazed at the color of light in the Middle East. While previously artists
had traveled to Italy to study mediterranean light they now were going to north
Africa as well.
Because
of Islam's disapproval in general of monastic orders, Dervishes from different
orders frequently had to gather in out of the way places. Here a Mevlevi Dervish
and Rifa'iyah or Howling Dervishes hold their rituals in the Ma'bad al-Riffa
mosque in the Eastern cemetery of Cairo.
Detail from 'The Whirling Dervishes'
by Jean-Leon Gerome,
French. Oil, 1899.
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