Artists and writers in the nineteenth century turned to Italy and Spain as well as Asia and the Far East for inspiration. These locales were considered .

These locales were considered: exotic

Explanation:

Artist needed exotic in order to produce art, art production is based on creativity and passion and artists are in touch with the movement those countries could gave them. The XIX century was the year of romanticism, which was well developed in Europe.

classical and renaissance ideals. he mainly focused in historical paintings, so you could also say that he drew his artistic inspiration from the bible, since he depicted and painted many scenes from it.