Opera Square - Egypt 1934 Opera Square is one of the main squares in the center of Cairo and dating back to 1869 AD, the year in which the first opera house in the Middle East, established during the reign of Khedive Ismail. Built in the middle of the field Alabora statue of Ibrahim Pasha Statue of Ibrahim Pasha: There is a statue of Ibrahim Pasha at the Opera Square (formerly Ibrahim), and this statue made by French artist (Cordier) and the order of the Khedive Ismail in 1872, built the statue in the threshold field of green first, but then transferred to the current position, brought his crisis between Egypt and Turkey, it has happened that makes Cordier two paintings to put them on the marble statue Hall, one representing the battle Nzib, and the second represents the battle of Acre, was Allouhtan the Shatt that Todaa on both sides of the pedestal, but the Turkish authorities intervened and rejected the paintings because they represent a defeat against the armies of Egypt. Cordier and took two paintings and traveled to France, and the articles in the Paris Exhibition in 1900, and after the expiration of the offer to take them home and saved in a small studio, where the burial history. It is noted that when the Egyptian government is determined to celebrate the centennial year of the death of Ibrahim Pasha, and so in 1948 she wanted to put Allouhtan in place, so I contacted Egypt, France, and searched for the paintings when the grandson Cordier, and in the greater Paris museums, did not find them on impact, and was told that he found two images Votogravitan for them, but then the artists Egyptians Ahmed Osman and Mansour Faraj in making two paintings Hbehtan Bloany Kurdish and which are currently present on both sides of the statue.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:14:07 +0000
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