# List of artistic works with Orientalist influences

This is an incomplete list of artistic works with Orientalist influences.

## Art

* David Roberts, The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia (1842)
* Théodore Chassériau, Arab Chiefs Challenging each other to Single Combat under the Ramparts of a City (1852)
* Léon Belly, Pélerins allant à La Mecque (1861)
* Gustave Guillaumet, Evening Prayer in the Sahara (1863)
* Alfred Dehodencq, Boabdil’s Farewell to Granada (1869)
* Henri Regnault, Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada (1870)
* Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Le jour des funérailles - Scène du Maroc (1889)

## Literature

* The Travels of Marco Polo, 13th century
* Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 14th century invented account of travels
* Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinação (1556), the most complete of the early Portuguese written accounts of the Indic, southeast Asia, China and Japan
* Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, 1588/89
* John Dryden, Aureng-zebe (1675), a heroic drama in theory based on the life of the reigning Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb
* Antoine Galland – Les mille et une nuits (1704–1717), first European translation of Arabian Nights
* François Pétis de la Croix — Les mille et un jours (The Thousand and One Days) (1710–1712)
* Montesquieu – Persian Letters (Lettres persanes) (1721)
* Voltaire — Zadig (1747)
* James Ridley — The Tales of the Genii (1764)
* William Thomas Beckford – Vathek (1786)
* Jacques Cazotte and Dom Denis Chavis — Continuation des mille et une nuits (Continuation of the Thousand and One Nights) (1788–1790)
* Robert Southey – Thalaba the Destroyer (1801)
* Robert Southey – Curse of Kehama (1810)
* Lord Byron – his four "Turkish tales": The Bride of Abydos, The Giaour, The Corsair (1814), Lara, A Tale (1814), and other works
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Kubla Khan (published 1816)
* Thomas Moore – Lalla-Rookh (published 1817)
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Westöstlicher Diwan (1819)
* Alexander Pushkin – Ruslan and Ludmila, (1820)
* Ralph Waldo Emerson – poem Indian Superstition (1821)
* Edgar Allan Poe – Tamerlane (1827), Al Aaraaf (1829), and Israfel (1831)
* Victor Hugo – Les Orientales (1829)
* George Meredith — The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment (1856)
* Gustave Flaubert – Salammbô (1862)
* Eça de Queiroz – The Relic (A Relíquia) (1887) and The Mandarin (O Mandarim) (1889)
* Anatole France – Thaïs (1890)
* Edward FitzGerald – "translation" or adaptation of the Persian Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)
* Pierre Loti (1850–1923) – highly popular French writer, mostly on his Oriental travels & novels set as far away as Japan and Tahiti
* Richard Francis Burton – translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (1885–1888)
* Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book (1894)
* Gaston Leroux – Phantom of the Opera (1911)
* Leo Tolstoy – Hadji Murat (1912)
* Victor Segalen – René Leys (1922)
* Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha (1922)
* James Hilton – Lost Horizon (1933)
* André Malraux – Man's Fate (1934) (La Condition humaine, 1933)
* George Orwell – Burmese Days (1934)
* Marguerite Yourcenar – Nouvelles orientales (1938)

## Opera, ballets, musicals

* Antonio Lucio Vivaldi – Juditha triumphans (1716)
* Georg Friedrich Händel – Tamerlano (1724) and Serse (1738)
* Jean-Georges Noverre – Les Fêtes Chinoises (1754)
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Indes Galantes (1735–1736)
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782)
* Gioachino Rossini – Semiramide (1823)
* Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco (1842)
* Jacques Offenbach – Ba-ta-clan (1855)
* Georges Bizet – Les Pêcheurs de Perles (1863)
* Giuseppe Verdi – Aida (1871)
* Emmanuel Chabrier – Fisch-Ton-Kan (1875)
* César Cui – The Mandarin's Son (1878)
* Gilbert and Sullivan – The Mikado (1885)
* Alexander Borodin – Prince Igor (1890)
* Sidney Jones – The Geisha (1896)
* Sidney Jones – San Toy (1899)
* Pietro Mascagni – Iris (1899)
* Howard Talbot – A Chinese Honeymoon (1896)
* Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly (1904)
* Richard Strauss – Salome, opera in one act based on Wilde's play (1905)
* Giacomo Puccini – Turandot (1926)
* Franz Lehár – The Land of Smiles (1929)
* Sigmund Romberg – Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach – The Desert Song (1926) and film (1929)
* Richard Strauss – Die ägyptische Helena, opera with libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1929)

## Orchestral works

* Mily Balakirev – Tamara
* Alexander Borodin – In the Steppes of Central Asia; "Polovetsian Dances" from Prince Igor
* Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Caucasian Sketches
* Modest Mussorgsky – "Dance of the Persian Slaves" from Khovanshchina
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Antar; Scheherezade
* Gustav Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde

## Shorter musical pieces

* Mily Balakirev – Islamey
* Ludwig van Beethoven – Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens, opus 113 (1811)
* Johann Joseph Fux – partita Turcaria, inspired by the 1683 Siege of Vienna by the Turks
* Alexander Glazunov – 5 Novelettes for String Quartet, Op 15
* Albert Ketèlbey – In a Persian Market (1920), In a Chinese Temple Garden (1925), and In the Mystic Land of Egypt (1931)
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Rondo alla turca from Piano Sonata No. 11 (K.331)
* Sergei Rachmaninoff – Oriental Sketch (1917)
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - “Chinese Dance” and “Arabian Dance” from The Nutcracker

## Theatre

* Tobias Bamberg's magic stage act as "Okito" (Germany, 1893 – United States, 1908)
* Oscar Wilde's Salomé (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
* Alexander's mentalism stage act (United States, c. 1890s–1910s)
* William Ellsworth Robinson's, magic stage act as "Chung Ling Soo" (United States, 1900–1918)
* Mary Zimmerman's "The White Snake", stage play" (United States, 2012–present)
* James Fenton's "The Orphan of Zhao", stage play" (United States & Great Britain, 2012–present)

## Photography

* Emile Bechard (active in Egypt 1869–1890) (1844-?)
* Henri Bechard (active in Egypt 1870 -1880)
* Henri Chouanard (1883-1936)
* Roger Fenton
* Francis Frith
* J. Andre Garrigues (?-?) (cs:J. André Garrigues)
* Rafael Garzón (1863-1923)
* Eric Milet (1870-1950)
* Louis Antonin Neurdein (1846-1914)
* Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov(1846–1916)

## Pulp magazines

* Oriental Stories: (1930–32), retitled The Magic Carpet Magazine (1933–34)

## Films

* Intolerance (1916)
* Broken Blossoms (1919)
* The Sheik (1921)
* The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
* The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
* My Geisha (1962)
* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
* Aladdin (1992)

## Comics

* The Adventures of Tintin (1929–1983)
* Carnets d'Orient by Jacques Ferrandez
* Habibi (2011)

## Television

* Arabian Knights (1968–1969)