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Whirling Dervishes
Also titled Dansende derwisjen
Jean Baptiste Vanmour (Valenciennes, 1671–1737)
c. 1720 - c. 1737
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 76 cm x width 101 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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.
