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Rick · 2nd April 2020, 04:36 AM

Egyptian Sword..

Looks like classic orientalist work with heavily applied artistic license.
So probably the location was the artist's studio and imagination rather than some place tangible.

From Wikipedia:
" Art historians tend to identify two broad types of Orientalist artist: the realists who carefully painted what they observed and those who imagined Orientalist scenes without ever leaving the studio."

2nd April 2020, 04:36 AM	#2
Rick Vikingsword Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 6,262	Genre Work? Egyptian Sword.. Looks like classic orientalist work with heavily applied artistic license. So probably the location was the artist's studio and imagination rather than some place tangible. From Wikipedia: " Art historians tend to identify two broad types of Orientalist artist: the realists who carefully painted what they observed and those who imagined Orientalist scenes without ever leaving the studio." Last edited by Rick; 2nd April 2020 at 05:15 AM.