TY - JOUR AU - First, Grzegorz PY - 2019/09/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Orient as an Inspiration. Archaeology of Ancient Near East in “Academic” Paintings JF - BAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum JA - BAF-O VL - 3 IS - 0 SE - Panel 5: Present & Past DO - 10.22012/baf.2018.04 UR - https://bop.unibe.ch/baf/article/view/4458 SP - AB - <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Key definitions</span></p><p><strong>Academic art (academism)</strong> – style in painting, sculpture, graphic and other visual arts connected with activities&nbsp;of European academies of fine arts in 19 th century. The main centres were Paris, London. Rome, Madrid,&nbsp;Munich, Vienna and Petersburg. Classical themes and techniques, apparently conservative, but opening way to&nbsp;the modern artistic style.</p><p><strong>Orientalism in visual arts</strong> - style in European painting, sculpture, graphic and architecture inspired by oriental&nbsp;cultures, visible from the end of Eighteenth and all Nineteenth centuries.</p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Persons (painters)</span></p><ul><li class="show">Lawrence Alma Tadema (1836-1912)</li><li class="show">Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)</li><li class="show">Edwin Long (1829-1891)</li><li class="show">Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902)</li><li class="show">Paul / Paweł Merwart (1855-1902)</li><li class="show">Ludwik Wiesiołowski (1854-1892)</li></ul><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Focus on:</span></p><ol><li class="show"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Oriental artefact as detail</span></li><li class="show">Oriental story as personality</li></ol> ER -