List of artistic works with Orientalist influences

This is an incomplete list of artistic works with Orientalist influences.

Art

• David Roberts, The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia (1842)
• Théodore Chassériau, Arab Chiefs Challenging each other to Single Combat under the Ramparts of a City (1852)
• Léon Belly, Pélerins allant à La Mecque (1861)
• Gustave Guillaumet, Evening Prayer in the Sahara (1863)
• Alfred Dehodencq, Boabdil’s Farewell to Granada (1869)
• Henri Regnault, Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada (1870)
• Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Le jour des funérailles - Scène du Maroc (1889)

Literature

• The Travels of Marco Polo, 13th century
• Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 14th century invented account of travels
• Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinação (1556), the most complete of the early Portuguese written accounts of the Indic, southeast Asia, China and Japan
• Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, 1588/89
• John Dryden, Aureng-zebe (1675), a heroic drama in theory based on the life of the reigning Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb
• Antoine Galland – Les mille et une nuits (1704–1717), first European translation of Arabian Nights
• François Pétis de la Croix — Les mille et un jours (The Thousand and One Days) (1710–1712)
• Montesquieu – Persian Letters (Lettres persanes) (1721)
• Voltaire — Zadig (1747)
• James Ridley — The Tales of the Genii (1764)
• William Thomas Beckford – Vathek (1786)
• Jacques Cazotte and Dom Denis Chavis — Continuation des mille et une nuits (Continuation of the Thousand and One Nights) (1788–1790)
• Robert Southey – Thalaba the Destroyer (1801)
• Robert Southey – Curse of Kehama (1810)
• Lord Byron – his four "Turkish tales": The Bride of Abydos, The Giaour, The Corsair (1814), Lara, A Tale (1814), and other works
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Kubla Khan (published 1816)
• Thomas Moore – Lalla-Rookh (published 1817)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Westöstlicher Diwan (1819)
• Alexander Pushkin – Ruslan and Ludmila, (1820)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson – poem Indian Superstition (1821)
• Edgar Allan Poe – Tamerlane (1827), Al Aaraaf (1829), and Israfel (1831)
• Victor Hugo – Les Orientales (1829)
• George Meredith — The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment (1856)
• Gustave Flaubert – Salammbô (1862)
• Eça de Queiroz – The Relic (A Relíquia) (1887) and The Mandarin (O Mandarim) (1889)
• Anatole France – Thaïs (1890)
• Edward FitzGerald – "translation" or adaptation of the Persian Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)
• Pierre Loti (1850–1923) – highly popular French writer, mostly on his Oriental travels & novels set as far away as Japan and Tahiti
• Richard Francis Burton – translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (1885–1888)
• Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book (1894)
• Gaston Leroux – Phantom of the Opera (1911)
• Leo Tolstoy – Hadji Murat (1912)
• Victor Segalen – René Leys (1922)
• Herman Hesse – Siddhartha (1922)
• James Hilton – Lost Horizon (1933)
• André Malraux – Man's Fate (1934) (La Condition humaine, 1933)
• George Orwell – Burmese Days (1934)
• Marguerite Yourcenar – Nouvelles orientales (1938)

Opera, ballets, musicals

• Antonio Lucio Vivaldi – Juditha triumphans (1716)
• Georg Friedrich Händel – Tamerlano (1724) and Serse (1738)
• Jean-Georges Noverre – Les Fêtes Chinoises (1754)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Indes Galantes (1735–1736)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782)
• Gioachino Rossini – Semiramide (1823)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco (1842)
• Jacques Offenbach – Ba-ta-clan (1855)
• Georges Bizet – Les Pêcheurs de Perles (1863)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Aida (1871)
• Emmanuel Chabrier – Fisch-Ton-Kan (1875)
• César Cui – The Mandarin's Son (1878)
• Gilbert and Sullivan – The Mikado (1885)
• Alexander Borodin – Prince Igor (1890)
• Sidney Jones – The Geisha (1896)
• Sidney Jones – San Toy (1899)
• Pietro Mascagni – Iris (1899)
• Howard Talbot – A Chinese Honeymoon (1896)
• Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly (1904)
• Richard Strauss – Salome, opera in one act based on Wilde's play (1905)
• Giacomo Puccini – Turandot (1926)
• Franz Lehár – The Land of Smiles (1929)
• Sigmund Romberg – Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach – The Desert Song (1926) and film (1929)
• Richard Strauss – Die ägyptische Helena, opera with libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1929)

Orchestral works

• Mily Balakirev – Tamara
• Alexander Borodin – In the Steppes of Central Asia; "Polovetsian Dances" from Prince Igor
• Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Caucasian Sketches
• Modest Mussorgsky – "Dance of the Persian Slaves" from Khovanshchina
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Antar; Scheherezade
• Gustav Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde

Shorter musical pieces

• Mily Balakirev – Islamey
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens, opus 113 (1811)
• Johann Joseph Fux – partita Turcaria, inspired by the 1683 Siege of Vienna by the Turks
• Alexander Glazunov – 5 Novelettes for String Quartet, Op 15
• Albert Ketèlbey – In a Persian Market (1920), In a Chinese Temple Garden (1925), and In the Mystic Land of Egypt (1931)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Rondo alla turca from Piano Sonata No. 11 (K.331)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff – Oriental Sketch (1917)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - “Chinese Dance” and “Arabian Dance” from The Nutcracker

Theatre

• Tobias Bamberg's magic stage act as "Okito" (Germany, 1893 – United States, 1908)
• Oscar Wilde's Salomé (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
• Alexander's mentalism stage act (United States, c. 1890s–1910s)
• William Ellsworth Robinson's, magic stage act as "Chung Ling Soo" (United States, 1900–1918)
• Mary Zimmerman's "The White Snake", stage play" (United States, 2012–present)
• James Fenton's "The Orphan of Zhao", stage play" (United States & Great Britain, 2012–present)

Photography

• Emile Bechard (active in Egypt 1869–1890) (1844-?)
• Henri Bechard (active in Egypt 1870 -1880)
• Henri Chouanard (1883-1936)
• Roger Fenton
• Francis Frith
• J. Andre Garrigues (?-?) (cs:J. André Garrigues)
• Rafael Garzón (1863-1923)
• Eric Milet (1870-1950)
• Louis Antonin Neurdein (1846-1914)
• Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov(1846–1916)

Pulp magazines

• Oriental Stories: (1930–32), retitled The Magic Carpet Magazine (1933–34)

Films

• Intolerance (1916)
• Broken Blossoms (1919)
• The Sheik (1921)
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
• My Geisha (1962)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• Aladdin (1992)

Comics

• The Adventures of Tintin (1929–1983)
• Carnets d'Orient by Jacques Ferrandez
• Habibi (2011)

Television

• Arabian Knights (1968–1969)

See also

• List of Orientalist artists
• Orientalism