Browse Items (163 total)

View of Tyre, Lebanon. Inhabitants of Lebanon in traditional costume.

Tags: Arabs, Architecture and built environment, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Jewellery, Lebanon, Music, Musical instruments, Smoking, Sour / anc. Tyre, Walls, Women

Wandering dervishes of the Ottoman empire. Dervish costume.Prior of a dervish lodge.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Dervishes, Human types, Musical instruments, Priests, Religious practices, Turkey

Musician of the imperial palace.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Istanbul, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Professions, Shoes and footwear, Thrace, Turkey

Lyra players from Crete.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Crete, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Musical instruments, Musicians, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life

Greek musicians and singers.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Houses, Human types, Mosques, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life

The interior of the temple of Aphaia at Aegina island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegina, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, String instruments, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

The bazaar of Athens. On the forefront, on the right, an emancipated African slave. On the doorway, the owner of the coffeehouse who is brigning a tray with coffee to the Ottoman governor Disdar Aga. Disdar Aga is sitting on the stairs, dressed in red, and next to him sits another Turkish aga. Standing at the entrance of the coffeehouse, the Greek voivode (governor) of Salamis island, who is conversing a Greek Baratario (protegé of a foreign power). At the centre of the picture, three Turkish women covered with long white veils. According to Edward Dodwell's description, the rest of the women depicted are Arvanite. Standing, on the right, a devout Muslim in green costume, an indication that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.

The dance of the dervishes at the Tower of the Winds in Athens, which was used as a tekije (dervish lodge). Sixteen ostrich eggs hang from the ceiling to avert the evil eye. A depiction of the final stage of the whirling dervishes' ritual: The two main dancers whirl while holding each other by the sash. In green, wearing a white turban, the Sheich or head of the Dervishes, who animates the dancers with his voice and by playing the tambour.

Gathering of devout Muslims at the Tower of the Winds in Athens, which was used as a tekije (dervish lodge). Sixteen ostrich eggs hang from the ceiling to avert the evil eye. A depiction of the first stage of the whirling dervishes' ritual: the faithful praise God and Prophet Muhammad.

Weapons of the Ottoman artillery, drums and other military musical instruments.

Tags: Bows, Music, Musical instruments, Ottoman army, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Turkey, Weapons

Musical instruments and saddle equipment typical of the Ottoman empire.

Tags: Animals, Horses, Music, Musical instruments, Riders, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

Typical musical instruments of the Ottoman Empire.

Tags: Cultural activities, Music, Musical instruments, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

Typical musical instruments of the Ottoman Empire.

Tags: Cultural activities, Music, Musical instruments, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

Musician of the Imperial Palace. Confectioner of the Sultan's court (Halvaci).

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Istanbul, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Ottoman officials, Pastry confectioners / Pastry sellers, Portraits, Professions, Shoes and footwear, Thrace, Turkey

A musician and a woman dancer of the Harem. The lady responsible for keeping order in the Harem.

Tags: Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dance, Dancers, Furniture, Harem, Human types, Istanbul, Jewellery, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Portraits, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Ancient bridge in Marsala (anc. Lilybaeum). Antiquities from Marsala.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bridges, Coins, Flutes, Human types, Italy, Marsala, Musical instruments, Oxen, Professions, Sheep, Shepherds, Sicily, Southern Italy

Dance of the dervishes of the Mevlevi order.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Dance, Dervish orders, Dervishes, Human types, Interiors, Mevlevi order, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Religious practices, Tekije (Dervish lodge), Turkey

Dance of the dervishes of the Kadri order.

Tags: Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dance, Dancers, Dervish orders, Dervishes, Human types, Inscriptions, Interiors, Kadri order, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Quranic inscriptions, Religious practices, Tekije (Dervish lodge), Turkey

Greek women dancing in Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Ethnic groups, Greek women, Human types, Istanbul, Mosques, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Smoking, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Ottoman dancers.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Dancers, Ethnic groups, Human types, Jewellery, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Shoes and footwear, Turkey, Turkish women, Turks, Women

Dance of Bulgarian peasants.

Tags: Bulgaria, Bulgarians, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Festivities / Celebrations, Human types, Music, Musical instruments, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Turks, Women

Caravan in the Balkan mountains.

Tags: Animals, Balkan mountains, Bulgaria, Caravans, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Human types, Modes of transport, Mountains, Musical instruments, Natural environment, Travel, Turkey

Musician of the Sultan's court.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Ottomans, Shoes and footwear, Thrace, Turkey

Greek dance.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Dancers, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey, Women

Itinerant musicians in Thessaloniki. Engraving by Almèry Lobel-Riche.

Tags: Almèry Lobel-Riche, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Macedonia, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaloniki, Women

Illustration for the poem of Lord Byron "Stanzas for Music": Woman at window.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Jewellery, Lord Byron, Musical instruments, Poems, Women

Illustration for the poem of Lord Byron "Hebrew Melodies-She walks in beauty": Jewish girl.

Tags: Ethnic groups, Harps, Human types, Jews, Lord Byron, Musical instruments, Natural environment, Poems, Women

Illustration for the poem of Lord Byron "The Corsair": Greek slave girl.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Furniture, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Interiors, Lord Byron, Musical instruments, Poems, Portraits, Women

Snake charmers in Morocco.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Human types, Leisure, Morocco, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Percussion instruments, Snake charmers, Snakes, Social sphere and everyday life

Frontispiece: Odalisques in the Harem.

Tags: Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Furniture, Golden Horn, Harem, Houses, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Interiors, Istanbul, Musical instruments, Odalisques, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Dance on the west bank of the Nile. On the foreground, two French travellers. The governors of the small vessels are smoking and drinking coffee while sitting on the ground, as are doing two dervishes and their servants farther away. According to Olivier's description, the scene depicts Egyptians dancing a war dance and a more sensual dance.

View of the Sweet Waters of Asia, on the Asiatic shores of the Bosporus. In the background the Anatolian Castle.

Turkish musicians at Büyükada island.

Tags: Büyükada / gr. Prinkipos, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Ottomans, Prince islands (Prens Adaları), Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

Featured Item

No featured items are available.