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
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
1760 approximately
Vernier (drawing); Monnin (engraving); Lemaître (direction)
Dance of the Mevlevi dervishes
1780 approximately
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Dance of the Mevlevi dervishes
1787
Dance of the Cadrys dervishes
1787
Dancing dervishes
1800 approximately
Saint-Sauveur (drawing); Labrousse (engraving)
Dervishes praying
Print, hand-colored
1800 approximately
Dervishes dancing in a shrine, Constantinople
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
1848
Dancing dervish
Print, woodcut
1849
Beaumont, Ad. de (drawing)
Dances of the whirling dervishes in Constantinople
1850
Mevlevi dervishes dancing in a teke
1850 approximately
Mevlevi dervishes dancing in a teke
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
1850
Dervishes dancing
1850 approximately
Dancing dervishes of Constantinople
Print, woodcut
1853
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Valnay; Tauxier
Whirling dervishes
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
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
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
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