Tanos's pictures (394)

In addition to the pictures below, there are pages dedicated to images of Prisons, Slave Markets, and Coffles and slave chains; and raw Photostreams with some of my photographs.

27 Aug 11	"Arabs Crossing the Desert" by Gerome
13 Feb 11	"The Harem on the Terrace" by Jean-Leon Gerome
13 Feb 11	"The Jade Necklace" by William Clark Wontner On display at Towneley Hall in Burnley, and mentioned in this blog post.
11 May 06	"Before Punishment" by Ferencz-Franz Eisenhut I've posted a weblog about this painting.
11 May 06	"The Pasha's Concubine" by Ferencz-Franz Eisenhut I've posted a weblog about this painting.
10 May 06	"Selling slaves in Rome" by J.L. Gerome (1886)
15 Jul 05	"Slave Market" by Gerome, 1866 J.L. Gerome painted the Slave Market in 1866. Describing a similar scene in Cairo, W.J. Muller wrote: [more...]
15 Jul 05	"Inspecting the New Arrivals" by Giulio Rosati
21 May 06	"The Babylonian Marriage Market" by Edwin Long According to the Greek historian Herodotus, writing about Babylon: "In every village once a year all the girls of marriageable age used to be collected together in one place, while the men stood round them in a circle; an auctioneer then called each one in turn to stand up and offered her for sale, beginning with the best-looking and going on to the second best as soon as the first had been sold for a good price." [more...]
15 Jul 05	"Slave girl for sale" by Jose Jimenez Aranda, 1892 In the Museum of Malaga. With a Greek inscription but a vaguely oriental carpet, this shares the "Greek Slave's" ambiguity between the Ancient and Orientalist worlds. Is she being exposed for sale during the Greek wars of independence from the Ottomans, or is she instead waiting to be bought in an Ancient Greek marketplace? [more...]
5 Mar 11	"Purchase of a slave" (1857) by J.L. Gerome

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