{"id":775,"date":"2014-05-02T14:03:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T14:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vangoyourself.wpengine.com.gridhosted.co.uk\/?p=775"},"modified":"2015-06-02T11:23:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:23:27","slug":"portrait-of-marie-fargues-in-a-turkish-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/portrait-of-marie-fargues-in-a-turkish-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of Marie Fargues in a Turkish Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The portrait shows the wife of the painter in turkish dress of the 18th century.\u00a0Jean-\u00c9tienne Liotard visited\u00a0Istanbul\u00a0and painted numerous\u00a0pastels\u00a0of Turkish domestic scenes; he also continued to wear Turkish dress for much of the time when back in Europe. Using modern dress was considered unheroic and inelegant, in\u00a0history painting\u00a0by using Middle Eastern settings with Europeans wearing local costume, as travelers were advised to do. Many travelers had themselves painted in exotic Eastern dress on their return, as did many who had never left Europe, including the famous &#8220;fashion icon&#8221; of the time, Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV and a contemporary of Liotard. Liotard&#8217;s eccentric adoption of oriental costume secured him the nickname of the &#8220;Turkish painter&#8221;. Source for the description: <a title=\"Wikipedia article on Jean-Etienne Liotard\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-%C3%89tienne_Liotard\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The portrait shows the wife of the painter in turkish dress of the 18th century.\u00a0Jean-\u00c9tienne Liotard visited\u00a0Istanbul\u00a0and painted numerous\u00a0pastels\u00a0of Turkish domestic scenes; he also continued to wear Turkish dress for much of the time when back in Europe. Using modern dress was considered unheroic and inelegant, in\u00a0history painting\u00a0by using Middle Eastern settings with Europeans wearing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/portrait-of-marie-fargues-in-a-turkish-dress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portrait of Marie Fargues in a Turkish Dress<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}