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Islamic Art

Colonial & Early Modernist

1800–1950

Osman Hamdi Bey

Orientalist-academic canvases and museum founding , c. 1880–1906

Kamal-ol-molk

Qajar–Pahlavi academic realism , c. 1890–1920

Istanbul. Active 1860–1910.

Iran. Active 1880–1940.

Public domain Wikimedia Commons

Orientalist-academic canvases and museum founding by Osman Hamdi Bey — Public domain Wikimedia Commons

Public domain Wikimedia Commons

Qajar–Pahlavi academic realism by Kamal-ol-molk — Public domain Wikimedia Commons

World Art Timeline surveys 4 traditions, 26 major periods and 95 sub‑periods from 3500 BCE–Present, with 202 figures. Summaries are paraphrased from Wikipedia, not reproduced verbatim.

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