Women of Algiers

Japanese: 《アルジェの女たち》 - あるじぇのおんなたち
Women of Algiers

...In music, Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio" (1782) was an early example of Turkish taste, and later, Verdi's "Aida" (premiered in 1871) was a work that was based on a fair amount of historical research into Egyptian customs. In the field of art, Romanticism's representative Delacroix's "Women of Alger" (1834) and "Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi" (1826) conveyed a passionate desire for the East, but neoclassical painters such as Ingres's "Grande Odalisque" (1814) attracted a wide range of interest, not just Romanticism. As the era went on, with the later generations of Chassériau, Fromentin, and Gérôme, it ended up merely satisfying eroticism and superficial curiosity, and gradually lost its freshness and power. ...

*Some of the terminology used in "Women of Algiers" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…音楽では,モーツァルトの《後宮よりの誘拐》(1782)のトルコ趣味が早い例で,後にはベルディの《アイーダ》(1871初演)のような,エジプト風俗に関してかなり歴史的考証を経たものも見られる。美術の分野では,ロマン主義の代表者ドラクロアの《アルジェの女たち》(1834),《ミソロンギの廃墟に立つギリシア》(1826)などが東方への熱い思いを伝えるが,アングルのような新古典主義の画家による《グランド・オダリスク》(1814)など,ロマン主義に限らず幅広い層の関心をあつめた。後の世代のシャセリオー,フロマンタン,ジェロームなどへと,時代が下ってゆくにつれ,単なるエロティシズムや浅薄な好奇心を満たすだけに終わり,しだいに新鮮さと力を失っていった。…

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