Sharjah, June 15th, 2011 (WAM) --The Sharjah Art Museum will host an exhibition of the British artist David Roberts next Wednesday.
The exhibition will be held during the period June 22 to September 15, 2011 and include 113 masterpieces of art works created by the artist who, with his brush, highlighted various components of the Middle East and characteristics of the civilization in the nineteenth century. The artist's paintings are divided into two groups. The first group represents the creative travel of the artist in the period 1796 - 1864 whereas at the end of 1838 he visited Egypt and focused on photographing Pharaonic archaeological sites in Luxor, Aswan and Abu Simbel and Assiut as well as painting mosques of Cairo. In the second group, the artist embodied his visit to the Holy Land in Palestine, Sinai and the Monastery of St. Catherine, Aqaba, Wadi Musa and Petra, including its treasury and cemeteries. The works of David Roberts are considered most important Orientalist works and made him one of the leaders of the romantic school in England in the nineteenth century.Copyright Emirates News Agency (WAM) 2011.
