Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas Preziosi
1855
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Portrait of Musa, a Hoca from Kashgar is a 1855 watercolor by Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas Preziosi, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a man named Musa, who taught the Qur’an in Kashgar. He holds prayer beads and wears a traditional skullcap. The artist painted him in 1855. Musa may have traveled to Constantinople with a caravan carrying silk and porcelain. Kashgar was a key center for Islamic learning and pilgrimage. If you like this, look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A portrait depicts Musa, identified as a Hoca, or Qur'anic teacher, holding a tespih, a string of prayer beads. He wears a crochet linen takke, a skullcap worn by devout Muslims. The subject may have traveled from Kashgar, a center of Islamic learning in Eastern Turkestan, to Constantinople with a caravan transporting goods such as silks and porcelain. The work is one of 31 portraits acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1900, originally assembled in an album of unknown origin.
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Amedeo Preziosi (2 December 1816 – 27 September 1882) was a Maltese painter and traveler known for his watercolours and prints of Constantinople, the Balkans, Ottoman Empire, and Romania.
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