Giese, Francine (Hrsg.): A l'Orientale: Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Francine Giese is director of Vitrocentre and Vitromusée, Romont, Switzerland. From 2014-2019 she held a SNSF professorship at the Institute of Art History, University of Zürich, where she led the research project Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe. She has widely published on Ibero-Islamic architecture, exchange and transfer processes and on architectural orientalism. Mercedes Volait is CNRS Research Professor at InVisu, Paris, and associated fellow to the Research Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She has published extensively on art and architecture in Modern Egypt, and studies islamic art collecting from Egypt and Syria in the nineteenth century (with Moya Carey). Ariane Varela Braga is a lecturer at the University of Geneva. She was research assistant on the SNSF project Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival (University of Zürich, 2014-2019). She is the author of monographs, edited volumes and articles on nineteenth-century theories of ornament and decorative arts, colored marbles and artistic migrations.