Image Gallery

The image gallery serves to illustrate the conceptual categories and regional contexts outlined in this website.

Further information may be found on the publications listed on the library page.

The image gallery is organised according to identified themes and will be updated on a regular basis.

The upcoming themes are listed below, with more to be added in due course:

Lines, Contours, and Script, Gaze, Paysage, Trees, Fortifications, Upheaval, Colour, Faktura, Massacres, Sensuality, War.

Lines, Contours, and Script

E ‘l buon Sordello in terra fregò ‘l dito,
dicendo: «Vedi? sola questa riga
non varcheresti dopo ‘l sol partito:

Dante, La Divina Commedia, Pur. 7.52-54

France

Daniel Buren, 'Excentrique(s), travail in situ', 2012

Cyprus

Christoforos Savva, 'Composition with White, Red, Blue and Green', 1966-67

Greece

Alexis Akrithakis, 'In the Court of Absalom (tsiki-tsiki)', 1965

Sardinia

Maria Lai, 'Holding the sun by the hand', 1984-2004

Sicily

Tano Festa, 'Da Michelangelo', 1978

Naples

Francesco Clemente, 'Watchtowers, Keys, Threads, Gates', 2017

Libya

Takwa Abu Barnosa, 'Fear', 2015

Egypt

Ahmed Moustafa, 'Blue Fugue', 1943

Algeria

Rachid Koraïchi, 'Les osties bleues', 2018

Tunisia

Nja Mahdaoui, 'Calligrams', 1990

Bedri Rahmi Eyüpoğlu, Kırmızı Bacaklı, 1956 (1).jpg

Türkiye

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, 'Kırmızı Bacaklı', 1956

Palestine

Abed Abdi, 'Longing to the Homeland', 2020

Morocco

Ahmed Cherkaoui, 'Composition Abstraite', 1962

Malta

Frank Portelli, 'Contours', 1983

Malta

Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci, 'Metall u Skiet', 2022

Spain

Antoni Tàpies, 'L'esperit Català', 1971

Spain

Cristóbal Gabarrón, 'Habitat 15', c.1997

Marcello Morandini (SICILY), 1B-1964, 2016..jpg

Italy

Marcello Morandini, '1B-1964', 2016

Italy

Italo Lanfredi, 'Labirinto di Arianna', 1990

Gaze

Il velluto dello sguardo di Dunja

Fulmineo torna presente pietà.

Giuseppe Ungaretti, L'Impietrito e il velluto, 1970

France

Édouard Manet, 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergère', 1882
(Detail)

Cyprus

Adamantios Diamantis, 'Mother and Child', 1992
(Detail)

Greece

Yiannis Tsarouchis, 'Woman from Elevsin', 1948
(Detail)

Sardinia

Francesco Ciusa, 'La madre dell'ucciso', 1906-07
(Detail)

Sardinia

Mario Delitala, 'Ritratto', 1957
(Detail)

Libero Andreotti, 'Seated Woman', 1915_edited.jpg

Italy

Libero Andreotti, 'Seated Woman', 1915
(Detail)

Naples

Carlo Striccoli, 'In Poltrona'
(Detail)

Libya

Arwa Abouon, 'Generation Series', 2004
(Detail)

Egypt

Inji Efflatoun, 'Portrait of a Prisoner', 1959
(Detail)

Algeria

Mohammed Issiakhem, 'Femme et Mur', 1977-78
(Detail)

Tunisia

Nicene Kossentini, 'Boujmal Salima', 2011
(Detail)

Nuri Iyem (TURKEY), Sıradan Sevdalılar (Ordinary Lovers), c.1970s.jpeg

Türkiye

Nuri Iyem, 'Sıradan Sevdalılar', c.1970s
(Detail)

Palestine

Abed Abdi, 'Mother and Child', 1968
(Detail)

Morocco

Hassan El Glaoui, 'Portrait'
(Detail)

Malta

Esprit Barthet, 'Mari tal-Bajd', 1964
(Detail)

Pablo Picasso, 'Woman in Blue', 1901_edited.jpg

Spain

Pablo Picasso, 'Woman in Blue', 1901
(Detail)

Renato Guttuso (ITALY), 'Ritratto della madre', 1939-1940_edited.jpg

Sicily

Renato Guttuso, 'Ritratto della madre', 1939-1940
(Detail)

Syria

Louay Kayyali, 'Grey Lady', 1972
(Detail)

Paysage

nisma’ ġol-fraxxnu u ġol-ħarrub tal-plajja
bħal karba twila ta’ min q’għed ibati
u jigdem l-art fl-uġigħ tal-aħħar firda;

Dun Karm Psaila, Wied Qirda,1933

Naples

Ettore Maria Bergler, 'View from Taormina', 1907

Sicily

Antonino Leto, 'A Hundred and Ten Years in Ischia', 1881

France

Othon Friesz, 'Paysage, Mourillon', 1937

Palestine

Ibrahim Ghannam, 'The Harvest', 1979

Syria

Fateh al-Moudarres, 'Landscape', 1971

Morocco

Moulay Ahmed Drissi, 'Untitled', undated

Türkiye

Fikret Muallâ, 'Moda', undated

Libya

Muhammad Abdulhamid As-Said, ‘Two Boats and a Hut’, undated

Greece

Konstantinos Parthenis, 'The Little Church of Cephalonia', c.1920-25

Spain

Mariano Bertuchi, 'Barrio judío de la ciudad de Tetuán', undated

Tunisia

Edgard Naccache, 'Boats and Barges', undated

Egypt

Mahmoud Said, ' Le Canal de Mahmoudieh', 1922

Malta

Robert Caruana Dingli, 'A View of Mdina', undated

Lebanon

César Gemayel, 'Paysage du Libon', 1957

Italy

Silvestro Lega, 'Church in Country', undated

Cyprus

Nicos Nicolaides, 'Amianitos', undated

Algeria

Abdallah Benanteur, 'Les Nymphes', 1992

Sardinia

Giuseppe Biasi, 'Ingresso a Oliena', 1940

Borg-Scapes and Rooftops

Ὡστόσο ἐμεῖς τὸ ξέραμε πὼς πέρα στὸ μεγάλο σταυροδρόμι
εἶναι μιὰ πολιτεία μὲ χιλιάδες πολύχρωμα φῶτα,
ἄνθρωποι χαιρετιοῦνται ἐκεῖ μὲ μιὰ κίνηση μόνο τοῦ μετώπου— ...
... ἀπ᾿ τὸν ἴσκιο τους πάνω ...

Yannis Ritsos, Petrified Time: Poems from Makronisos, 1949