The article is devoted to three directions of oriental architecture – cult, palace and park. Its main part concerns the Budapest synagogues. As an example Russian orientalism, phenomenon Black Sea palaces highest St. Petersburg aristocracy given. Hungarian masterpiece park architecture, elephant house in zoo Budapest, analyzed. It concluded that Orientalism had influence on formation national s...

The eclectic language of " Gypsy palace " settlements in Romania has to date been largely defined through an essentialist understanding of the Rroma's oppositional relationship with the cultural norms of the majority. This report proposes an alternative reading of the mansions built by the formerly nomadic Rroma, one that accounts for a more reciprocal relationship between hetero-representation...

“D and fables I fashion,” wrote 18th-century Italian poet and librettist Pietro Metastasio, “and even while I sketch elaborate fables and dreams upon paper ... I so enter into them that I weep and am offended at ills I invented” (1). Metastasio might have been describing the work of his contemporary Giambattista Tiepolo, whose art blended history, mythology, legend, and scripture in a grand man...