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<p>[QUOTE="Van_Poperin, post: 4307136, member: 16501"]Agreed— not any Turkish or Islamic world style I know, but depictions of living things were absolutely not forbidden all over the Islamic world. Famously a lot of Persian homes were decorated with images of European women dating back to the 17th century so (in some places) the art didn’t even need to be for export.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]349696[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]349697[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]349698[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]349700[/ATTACH]</p><p>Also lots of people/animals/faces at the Islamic gallery at the British Museum (wherever that may be— they’ve moved it since I last visited).</p><p>With that style I’d GUESS European.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Van_Poperin, post: 4307136, member: 16501"]Agreed— not any Turkish or Islamic world style I know, but depictions of living things were absolutely not forbidden all over the Islamic world. Famously a lot of Persian homes were decorated with images of European women dating back to the 17th century so (in some places) the art didn’t even need to be for export. [ATTACH=full]349696[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349697[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349698[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349700[/ATTACH] Also lots of people/animals/faces at the Islamic gallery at the British Museum (wherever that may be— they’ve moved it since I last visited). With that style I’d GUESS European.[/QUOTE]
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