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Dancing Dervishes
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Dancing Dervishes

Jean Baptiste Vanmour · c. 1720 - c. 1737 · canvas; oil paint (paint)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

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.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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paintingman dancing aloneTurkije
Credit lineDansende derwisjen. c. 1720 - c. 1737. Jean Baptiste Vanmour. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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