A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...
Unsurprisingly, the emergence of Orientalist art in the 19th ... of North Africa and the Islamic faith that he converted to,” says de Guise. Osman’s 1880 oil painting, Young Woman Reading ...