Les Arts arabes, based on Jules Bourgoin’s extensive studies and drawings of the architecture of Egypt and Palestine, was published by Auguste-Jean Morel in Paris from 1868 in forty parts. It contains 92 plates, 52 of which are chromolithographs.
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The young architect Jules Bourgoin was encouraged by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to publish the studies he had made in Egypt and Palestine during the years 1863–66. The result was Les Arts arabes, a richly illustrated publication with 92 plates and a short textual commentary. Viollet-le-Duc wrote the introduction and praised the author’s analyses of the geometrical ornamentation of Islamic art (Bourgoin, 1873, p. 7; Bideault, 2012, p. 10). One of the plates shows a stucco and glass window in Cairo (IG_47).
Bideault, M. (2012). Les Arts arabes ([1868]-1873) In Jules Bourgoin (1838-1908) : L’obsession du trait [en ligne]. Paris: Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art. Retrieved from https://books.openedition.org/inha/4586.
Bourgoin, J. (1873). Les Arts arabes. Architecture, menuiserie, bronzes, plafonds, revêtements, marbres, pavements, vitraux, etc. Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie.
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