Welcome to the Harem Life Web Site. This web site is a collection of my own favourite paintings. Most are Orientalist, but there are a few paintings by artists who aren't recognised as orientalist artists. The paintings are catagorised into 5 sections: Entertainment, Odalisques, Harem Baths, Harem Life and Harem Guards to make it easier for you to find what you are looking for.
You can now buy selected Orientalist prints from our Orientalist Art Print Shop
 Harem Life |  Entertainment |  Odalisques |  Harem Guards |  Harem Baths |
Orientalist Links
Orientalist Paintings
Harem Life's sister site that covers all aspects of Orientalist Art with paintings by over 150 artists.
Merchant paintings
Orientalist paintings depicting merchants selling their wares.
Slave paintings
Orientalist paintings showing the buying and selling of slaves.
Orientalist Art Print Shop
A chance to buy selected Orientalist prints featured on this web site.
Orientalist Art Mailing List
An online group to discuss, ask questions etc, about any aspect of
Orientalist Art. Updates on this web site will also be mailed to
this list.
Orientalist Art of
the Nineteenth Century
Rick Fink's really tasteful Orientalist art website. Not only does it
have some very clear little known pictures, it has well presented
interesting information about both the artists and paintings there.
Orientalism and the Other
Towards a New Anthropology of the Middle East
by Kevin Walker, University of California, Berkeley, 1991.
Last updated December 2007
©tiana 2000-2007