Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Arts

Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art features artwork that captures Western artists? responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. These works are full of rich detail and lush colors based on fact but often romanticized or recombined to suit the artist?s fancy. Oasis provides important historic and cultural perspectives on the ways in which Western artists depicted, and sometimes distorted, these cultures. It also highlights the power these images had, and continue to have, on the Western imagination.