Influence of the Middle East: Moorish, Saracenic, Northern Indian, and Islamic Design

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The Great Exhibition of 1851

• The Great Exhibition and Moorish Architecture and Design in Great Britain
• Decorative Arts and Design of South Asia (sitemap)
• Indian Art Objects displayed at the Great Exhibition
• Indian Pavillion (I)
• Indian Pavillion (II)

Built Stuctures

• Royal Pavilion, Brighton
• Royal Stables, Brighton
• King George the Fourth (a.k.a. "Prinny") and the Royal Brighton Pavilion (1811-1822)
• Sezincote
• Arab Hall, Leighton House
• Railway and Government Buildings, Kuala Lumpur
• Sultan Mosque, Singapore
• Elveden Hall, Suffolk

Design and Designers

• Owen Jones
• Sitemap
• Owen Jones and Moorish Design in the Victorian Era
• Arabian N^o. 1 (from The Grammar of Ornament)
• Arabian N^o. 2 (from The Grammar of Ornament)
• Arabian N^o. 9 (from The Grammar of Ornament)
• Persian N^o. 3 (from The Grammar of Ornament)
• Turkish N^o. 3 (from The Grammar of Ornament)
• Indian N^o. 1 (from The Grammar of Ornament)
• Indian N^o. 4 (from The Grammar of Ornament)
• Christopher Dresser
• Painted Ceiling Ornament in the Arabian style (from Studies in Design)
• Center Ceiling Design in the Arabian style (1) (from Studies in Design)
• Center Ceiling Design in the Arabian style (2) (from Studies in Design)
• William Morris
• Peacock and Dragon (textile)
• Ispahan (textile)
• Bruce James Talbert
• Paisley Panel (textile)
• Ram Singh (material needed)
• John Lockwood Kipling (material needed)

Literary Sources and Relations

• A Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights) (material needed)
• Edward FitzGerald's rendering of The Rubáiyât of Omar Khayyám
• Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
• Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (the Indian scarf; materials needed)
• George Meredith, The Shaving of Shagpat

Visual Arts

• Panomara of the Temples of Elora at the Surrey Zoological Gardens. 1843
• Orientalists Painters: British Artists of the Mid and Far East
• Arthur Boyd Houghton's illustrations to the Arabian Nights
• Architecture in British India
• Architecture in South Asia before British India

Political Implications and Contexts

• British Empire: An Introduction
• India: An Introduction
• The East India Company

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Last modified 20 February 2015