Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Vitrocentre
Au Château 108b
Romont
1680
Switzerland
ABOUT
Sarah Tabbal studied art history, classical archaeology and psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2020, she completed her PhD on French and Spanish Orientalist paintings of the 19th century at the LMU's Institute of Art History. Her research interests include European Orientalism and Islamic art. She is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher in the SNSF project "Luminosity of the East. Materiality, Provenance and Reception of Islamic Coloured Glass Windows in the West" at the Vitrocentre Romont in Switzerland.
Discipline
Art/Art History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Mediterranean Studies
Colonialism
Comparative
History Of Architecture
Cultural Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Visual Cultural
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Syria
Ottoman Empire
Europe
Maghreb
Specialties
Orientalism In Nineteenth-Century Art
Islamic Art
Transcultural Exchange In The Mediterranean Region
Languages
French (fluent)
English (fluent)
German (native)
Arabic (native)
Spanish (fluent)
Italian (intermediate)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2020
| Art History
| Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Abstracts
Historic source or imagination: Islamic stucco glass windows in European Orientalist Paintings
