Turkey

The dancing god

Sculpture, ivory

-2000 B.C., approximately

Soufis dancing the Sama in front of cheikh Nizam al-Din Awliya

Manuscript illumination, watercolour

1485

Mevlevi dervishes dancing

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1550 approximately

Mustafa Ali presenting his book to Lala Mustafa Pasha in a Mevlevi dervishes’ teke (cloister)

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1550 approximately

“A sultan watching a Mevlevi dervish and a “”köçek”” boy dancer, dancing to separate orchestras”

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1550 approximately

Mawlana dances to the rhythm of a hammer beating a gold plate

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1599

A soufi saint leading his disciples to the dance

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1600 approximately

Mawlana dancing the Sama ritual dance

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1600 approximately

Dervishes dancing and musicians

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1650 approximately

Angel dancing before an Archangel

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1650 approximately

Dance of the Mevlevi dervishes at Konya (Danse des Mevlevîs de Konya)

Painting, manuscript illumination, miniature

1650 approximately

Dance of the dervishes

Print

1717

Moor or Mour, Jean Baptiste van (1671-1737)

Painting, oil on canvas

1750 approximately

Whirling dervish

Painting, watercolor and gouache on paper

1750 approximately

Dervishes dancing. Detail

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1750 approximately

Derwishes dancing the Sama (Dervishes dancing the Sama)

Painting, mural

1750 approximately

Kadiri dervishes dancing in two concentric circles

Print

1760 approximately

Vernier (drawing); Monnin (engraving); Lemaître (direction)

Dance of the Mevlevi dervishes 

Print

1780 approximately

Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis

Dance of the Mevlevi dervishes 

Print

1787

Dance of the Cadrys dervishes 

Print

1787

Dancing dervishes

Print

1800 approximately

Saint-Sauveur (drawing); Labrousse (engraving)

Dervishes praying

Print, hand-colored

1800 approximately

Dervishes dancing in a shrine, Constantinople

Print

1800 approximately

A derwise (Un derwisch)

Print, color

1802

Dalgabio, Jean-Michel

Derviches (Dervishes)

Drawing, black pencil

1843

Dances of the whirling dervishes in Constantinople

Print, woodcut

1848 

Dances of the whirling dervishes, at Constantinople

Print

1848

Dancing dervish

Print, woodcut

1849

Beaumont, Ad. de (drawing)

Dances of the whirling dervishes in Constantinople

Print

1850

Mevlevi dervishes dancing in a teke

Print

1850 approximately

Mevlevi dervishes dancing in a teke

Print

1850 approximately

Preziosi, Amadeo (Valetta, Malta 1816 – Constantinople, Turkey 1882)

The Mevlevihane or hall of the whirling dervishes at Galata

Painting, watercolour

1850 approximately

Ritual dervish dancing in 5 stages

Print

1850

Dervishes dancing

Print

1850 approximately

Dancing dervishes of Constantinople

Print, woodcut

1853

Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis

Valnay; Tauxier

Whirling dervishes

Print

1850 approximately

Preziosi, Amadeo (Valetta, Malta 1816 – Constantinople, Turkey 1882)

Dancing dervish

Painting, pencil and watercolour

1855

Preziosi, Amadeo (Valetta, Malta 1816 – Constantinople, Turkey 1882)

Souvenirs from the Orient: whirling dervishes

Print, color

1857

Preziosi, Amadeo (Valetta, Malta 1816 – Constantinople, Turkey 1882)

The whirling dervishes in the mevlevihane of Galata, Istanbul (detail)

Print, lithograph, color

1857

Vambéry (drawing)

The Nakhisbendi dervishes dancing in Bokhara 

Print

1865

Preziosi, Amadeo (Valetta, Malta 1816 – Constantinople, Turkey 1882)

Galata Mevlevi dervishes’ shrine

Painting, watercolor and pencil heightened with white on paper

1865 approximately

Montaut, Henri de (drawing)

The whirling dervishes

Print, color, lithograph

1870

Face to face figure in the Mukabele ritual dance of the Mevlevi dervishes

Painting, watercolour

1870 approximately

Preziosi, Amadeo (Valetta, Malta 1816 – Constantinople, Turkey 1882)

Dervish in praying

Mixed technique on paper

1870 approximately

Preziosi, Amadeo (Valetta, Malta 1816 – Constantinople, Turkey 1882)

Whirling dervish

Mixed technique on paper

1870 approximately 

The Eastern Question: Dancing dervishes – sketched by our special artist in Constantinople

Print

1876

Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis

Montoréano, Ph. (drawing)

Pictures from Constantinople: Dancing dervishes in a cloister at Pera

Print, woodcut

1878

Dancing dervishes

Print, from a photograph

1880

Dancing dervishes in a monastery at Pera

Print

1886

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904)

Whirling dervish (Le derviche tourneur)

Painting, oil on canvas

1889

Dance of the Mevlevi dervishes (O choros ton dervisson mevlevi)

Print, woodcut

1890 approximately

Dance of the Whirling Dervishes. Constantinople

Print, lithograph, color

1910 approximately

Yvon, Adolphe

A whirling dervish

Painting, oil on panel

1930 approximately

Mondino, Aldo

Painting, oil on linoleum

1989