Orientalists and the Middle East Bob Speel's page discussing Orientalist painting http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/other/orient.htm

Orientalists and Ghadir Khumm discussing Orientalists' understanding of the Sunni and Shia traditions in Islam. http://www.al-islam.org/short/ghadir.htm

Alexandre Roubtzoff Presentation of the life and work of the Russian-French Painter Alexandre Roubtzoff. (Mostly in French.) http://www.roubtzoff.org/

Orientalist Art of the Nineteenth Century A century of European painters recording and interpreting the Near and Middle East. http://www.orientalistart.net

Orientalist Painting Images of paintings of famous Orientalist artists. http://www.orientalist-art.org.uk/

Orientalism: a Brief Definition Edward Said's definition of Orientalism. http://65.107.211.206/post/poldiscourse/pol11.html

Bezalel-Levy Editions collaboration of painting and photography by a husband and wife collaboration. Themes include Middle Eastern architecture, Judaica, and landscape. http://www.bezalel-levy.com/fineart.htm

The Dahesh Museum of Art The only museum in America dedicated to collecting and exhibiting 19th- and early 20th-century European academic art. The basis of the Museum is an extensive art collection acquired by the Lebanese writer and philosopher Dr. Dahesh (1909-1984.) http://www.daheshmuseum.org/

William Holman Hunt's Oriental Mania and his Uffizi self portrait George P. Landow's essay, originally from The Art Bulletin, 1982. http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/whh/selfportrait.html

The Salon Tradition While the artists outside the established institutions were revolutionizing art, the Academy continued to function as a bastion of traditional standards and values. http://www.hearts-ease.org/gallery/19th-c/salon/index.html