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Title: Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hering, Fanny Field
Subjects: Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904
Publisher: New York : Published by Cassell Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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appearance at once imposing and gracious, through its colossal proportions and the sculptured ornaments that make it a real work of art. Two doors, literally covered with iron, close the entrance to this warlike construction. Beneath the arch a military post is stationed, whuli Clonic has immortalized in his Arnauts oi Cairo. Assuredly they arc there from love ol ornamentation and to please us painters, for. studying tins group of soldiers decked out in brilliant costumes, one is tempted to question their strategic utility as regards the secu- ii\ oi the city. While awaiting a new conquest of Egypt by no matter whom, decorative soldiers, these sentinels oi comic opera, have no other orders than io stop the photographers whom they would honor with their confidence. •• Their costume, artistically loosened, their luxurious arms as brilliant as they are inoffensive, their proud, disdainful attitudes, their slightest gestures, everything about them seems to have been carefully studied.
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Till GRAND WHIM I l\l c II. I III. AND WORKS, OF JEAN LEON Ci.ROMl \i$ Nothing, however, can be more natural than these interminable Greek mustaches which divide the face in two, like two enormous buffalo horns, andwhich form the greatest ornament of these energetic faces bronzed by the sun.The mustache, which has nothing of the Arabic in principle, is a sign ofAlbanian origin in the Cairene soldier. The Arnauts, this Greek militiaimported into Egypl by Mehemet-Ali to contend against the increasing impor-tance ol the Mamelukes, inaugurated at Cairo both the fustanelle and themustache, the effect ol which they heightened by wearing the richest stuffs theycould find in 1111 -> country which they had invaded. It was an innovation in aland where the heard is in high esteem, and when- the respect due to a man isgraduated according to the length t this ornament. A soldier amateur, theArnaut plays his role with ease, and becomes an indispensable hit of furniture atthe door ol a mo

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