France: 'Slave Market in Ancient Rome'. Oil on canvas painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), 1884. Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 - 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor of the academicism style, one of the most important of his period. His subjects included Greek mythology, historical painting, Orientalism and portraits, and his painting was so widely reproduced he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880."
A ‘harem’ is not a bordello, seraglio or brothel, but refers to the women’s quarters, usually in a polygynous household, which are forbidden to men. It originated in the Near East and is typically associated in the Western world with the Ottoman Empire. Female seclusion in Islam is emphasized to the extent that any unlawful breaking into that privacy is ḥarām ie, 'forbidden'. A Muslim harem does not necessarily consist solely of women with whom the head of the household has sexual relations (wives and concubines), but also their young offspring, other female relatives or odalisques, which are the concubines’ servants. The harem may either be a palatial complex, as in Romantic tales, in which case it includes staff (women and eunuchs), or simply their quarters, in the Ottoman tradition separated from the men's selamlık. A hammam is a common bath house.
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