A volume which accompanied exhibitions featuring the arts which flourished during the 46-year reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in the 16th century. Pieces featured include album paintings, calligraphy, book-bindings, illuminated manuscripts, jade, silver and gold objects.
For centuries the Middle East attracted enterprising traders and adventurous travelers throughout the world to its distant lands. European artists - whether professional painters accompanying an expedition or amateur watercolorists on holiday - responded to these exotic surroundings and changing conditions, preserving the Middle Eastern legacy in ...
Levni's pictorial narrative of the Surname-i Vehbi, poet Vehbi's account of a festival organised in 1720 to commemorate the circumcision of four sons of Sultan Ahmed III, is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of Ottoman art and possibly the last great example of illustrated Islamic manuscript. Preserved in the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, ...
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