Wishing all a happy Eid al-Fitr foe 2023!
Francesco Peluso, Italian, b. 1836
Evening Prayer in the Desert
Oil on canvas
65 by 143cm., 25½ by 56½in.
Private collection
Francesco Peluso (1836 - 1916) was active/lived in Italy. Francesco Peluso is known for Genre scene painting of socializing figures dancing, sharing fun.
Francesco Peluso was born in Naples in 1836. His work was particularly admired for his inventive bourgeois and folk genre scenes in the eighteenth century style.
Ludwig Deutsch (Austrian, 1855-1935)
Early morning, Id el-fitr, visit the tombs of their relatives, Cairo c. 1902
signed, inscribed and dated 'L. Deutsch Le Caire 1902' (lower left)
Oil on canvas
45 1/4 x 62 1/2in (115 x 158.7cm)
Private collection
On one or more days of the festival 'Idu 'L-Fitr festival, some or all of the members of most families, but chiefly the women, visit the tombs of their relatives. This they also do on the occasion of the other grand festival. ["Idu 'l-Azha"] The visitors, or their servants, carry palm branches, and sometimes sweet basil, to lay upon the tomb which they go to visit. The palm-branch is broken into several pieces, and these, or the leaves only, are placed on the tomb.
Numerous groups of women are seen on these occasions, bearing palm-branches, on their way to the cemeteries in the neighborhood of the metropolis. They are also provided, according to their circumstances, with cakes, bread, dates, or some other kind of food, to distribute to the poor who resort to the burial-ground on these days. Sometimes tents are pitched for them; the tents surround the tombs which is the object of the visit. More on this painting
Ludwig Deutsch, 1855-1935, was born in Vienna to a well-to-do family. He began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts after completing high school. He studied in the atelier of Alselm Feuerbach along with the painter Rudolf Ernst, his contemporary, who was also an Orientalist and lifelong friend.
Deutsch decided to move to Paris to continue his studies. He was accepted into the class of Leopold Carl Muller, another Austrian Orientalist, who had moved to Paris. By 1880, he had decided to cut all his ties with his life in Vienna, apart from his friend Rudolf Ernst, who had also moved to Paris. Deutsch set up a studio on the Rue Pelletier, and sent a portrait to the Paris Salon in 1879. He was then studying with Jean-Paul Laurens, who promoted his student’s work to Parisian high society. It was in 1881 that he began painting Orientalist works. He began making paintings that focused on single figures instead of the groups of people that he had been painting before.
Deutsch traveled to Egypt in 1886 for the first time, resulting in a number of paintings of everyday street scenes. He visited again in 1890, and frequently did so over the next few years.
Deutsch wanted accuracy in his work, and so hired local photographers to take pictures of the sites that he would later paint. Deutsch won the Gold Medal at the Paris Salon in 1900. His work sold well, with buyers being drawn to his incredible attention to detail. He continued painting through the next decade and a half till the outbreak of the First World War, when he was forced to flee Paris.
Deutsch became a French citizen in around 1919. Throughout his career, he worked towards improving his photo-realistic technique. Though he was a studio-painter who often painted with models in Paris, his travels in Egypt lent color and atmosphere that rendered his paintings authentic. Deutsch continued living and working in Paris till his death in 1935. More on Ludwig Deutsch
Vittorio Amadeo
Ali Muhittin Haci, Istanbul
Water colour
43*58 cm
Louvre Museum
Children gather in small choir groups in front of a home and sing. The song is intended to call on God to bless the youngest child of the family, to keep him or her healthy that the mother will remain happy. The more they sing, the more nuts and sweets they receive. The Qarqee'an tradition is intended to spread love, happiness and affection among adults and children Gargee'an.
Vittorio Amadeo Preziosi (1816 - 1882) was active/lived in Turkey, Malta, Italy. Vittorio Preziosi is known for City genre, buildings and landscape painting-Orientalist.
Count Amadeo Preziosi was descended from a family which had migrated from Corsica to Malta in the 17th century and been awarded a title by the king of Sicily. Preziosi was born in Valetta on 2 December 1816, and spent his childhood and youth in Malta. His father Count Gio Francois was an eminent figure in Malta and a wealthy man.
Preziosi was educated by private tutors, and his passion for drawing and painting began as a child. Although he studied law in compliance with his parents' wishes he eventually abandoned this profession to devote himself to painting, first entering the studio of Giuseppe Hyzler, and subsequently going to France to complete his art education at the Paris Academy of Fine Arts. This was a time when European painters were flocking to the Gateway to the East, as Istanbul was known, and under this influence Preziosi packed up his paints and brushes and set out from Malta in 1842, travelling first to Italy and then to Istanbul. More on Vittorio Amadeo
Grigori Grigorevich Gagarin
Outdoor Fete in Turkey
Oil on canvas
Peterhof Palace, St. Petersburg
After the Eid al-Fitr prayer, the people of Jerusalem will decorate the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque with toys for children who come from all Palestinian areas to participate in the Eid al-Fitr prayer rituals. Many Palestinians go out to visit the families of those imprisoned, visit the prisons themselves, and visit the graves of the martyrs to lay wreaths on them.
Palestinians and Jordanians, decorate their homes and prepare sumptuous meals for family and friends. They prepare new clothes and shoes for the festival. Eid festivities in Palestine and Jordan may vary culturally depending on the region, but one common thread in all celebrations is generosity and hospitality. It is a common for families to gather at the patriarchal home after the Eid prayers. Before the special Eid meal is served, young children will line up in front of each adult family member, who dispense money as gifts to the children. Jordanians would also hang fanous lanterns.
In Lebanon, many concerts take place during Eid al-Fitr by Lebanese and other Arab superstars. Musicians also perform on the Beirut waterfront. Other activities include art exhibitions.
Ma'amoul and Kahk are popular cookie treats baked and consumed during Eid in Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. More on Eid al-Fitr celebrations
Prince (Duke) Grigori Grigorievich Gagarin (1810 - 1893) was active/lived in Russian Federation. Prince Duke Grigori Grigorievich Gagarin is known for Painting.
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Duke Grigory Grigorievich Gagarin belonged to one of the oldest aristocratic families which left some significant trace in Russian history. He was an artist, illustrator, art researcher, architect, Royal Court attendant of Her Imperial Majesty, Vice President of the Fine Arts Academy since 1859 and Privy Councillor. Karl Brüllow was one of his teachers. Gagarin spent most of his childhood and youth in Rome and Paris. In 1832 he came to Saint Petersburg and entered the service of the Asian Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He met the famous Russian poets Alexander Pushkin und Michail Lermentow. Gagarin's serious passion for the orient began when he sailed on the brig “Themistokles” from Athens to Constantinople between 1834 and 1836. Two sojourns to the orient followed: In 1840 Gagarin served in the army and sojourned in the Caucasus and in 1848 was appointed deputy of the governor of the Caucasus Duke Michail Vorontsov in Tiflis. More on Grigori Grigorievich Gagarin
Fabio Fabbi (Italian, 1861–1946)
The dancers
Oil on board
40.2 x 49.5 cm. (15.8 x 19.5 in.)
Private collection
Fabio Fabbi
The Dancers
Oil on canvas
81 by 120cm. 31¾ by 47¼in.
Private collection
Fabio Fabbi was an Italian painter working in the Orientalist tradition. Born in Bologna, Italy in 1861, he began his artistic career by studying at the Accademia Di Belle Arti in Florence in the 1880s. He would gain considerable popularity for his exoticized, Neoclassical paintings, usually depicting Middle Eastern and North African street scenes and featuring harem women, dancers, and Muslim warriors. Fabbi's work was considered more commercial than many of his peers, resulting in the artist’s fiscal prosperity and his frequent contributions to exhibitions in Turin, Milan, and Florence. He died in 1946. More on Fabio Fabbi
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