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Whirling Dervishes
Jean Baptiste Vanmourca. 1720 - ca. 1737
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dervishes occupied a special place in religiously tolerant Istanbul. Through prayer, music and ecstatic dance, they tried to enter into a trance and thus come into contact with Allah. Twice a week they performed this dance ceremony, which visitors were allowed to watch. Vanmour must have regularly sat in the gallery to study the whirling of the dervishes.
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Details
- Title: Whirling Dervishes
- Creator: Vanmour, Jean Baptiste
- Date Created: ca. 1720 - ca. 1737
- Physical Dimensions: doek
- Subject Keywords: politieke geschiedenis, Turkije
- Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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