The Orientalist movement began when artists began painting their experiences as they traveled to countries such as Turkey , Persia , Iraq , Egypt , Lebanon , Palestine , Arabia , and North Africa . Many artists , including Delacroix , Jean-Lyon Gyrfme (1824-1904 , Thyodore Chassyriau (1819-1856 , Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860 , and William Holman Hunt (1827-1910 , made one or more journeys to the region . But some of them just relied on accounts and literature written by other people . One of them was Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867 ) who never traveled to the East...











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