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[james_davis_nicoll]

This is a painting by Édouard Frédéric Wilhelm Richter, who I had never heard of. As well, it's an example of "orientalist" painting, which I had also never heard of. Seems to be depictions of the east (starting at the middle east), as imagined by a painter whose online bio does not mention having ever visited the east.

Some interesting detail work in the expanded version.

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[wild_patience]

Re Orientalism, I can't help thinking of the early 20th century hoochie-koochie dancers in shows, giving themselves performance names like Salome. (Irving Berlin wrote a song, "Sadie Salome, Go Home," about the (Jewish) boyfriend chiding his girlfriend. "Don't do that dance, I tell you, Sadie! That ain't no business for a lady. Everybody knows that I'm your loving Mose. Oy, oy, oy, oy - where is your clothes?" This is available in the East Side Songbook, a bunch of Berlin's earlier songs.)