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Mount Sinai and the Monastery of Saint Catherine (A). Mount Moses (D). In the foreground, caravan of Ottoman pilgrims to Mecca.
Tags: Animals, Camels, Caravans, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Equids, Ethnic groups, Horses, Human types, Mount Moses (Gabal Musa), Mount Sinai, Natural environment, Ottomans, Pilgrimages, Pilgrims, Religious practices, Saint Catherine's Monastery (Mount Sinai), Social sphere and everyday life, Travel, Turks, Views
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.
Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Africans, Animals, Arvanites, Athens, Attica, Cafés / Cafeneia, Carpets, Castles and fortresses, Children, Coffee, Commerce, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Greengrocers, Human types, Itinerant traders, Merchants / Traders, Monastiraki, Mosques, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Ottoman officials, Pack animals, Pilgrims, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Street markets and bazaars, Turks, Tzistaraki Mosque (Athens), Views, Voivodes, Walls, Women
Procession on the Day of Corpus Christi, in which Venetian senators bid the pigrims to the Holy Land farewell.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Feast of Corpus Christi, Italy, Piazza San Marco (Venice), Pilgrims, Processions, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Senate of Venice, Senators of Venice, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Veneto, Venice
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