This list omits the hundreds of illustrated books by Turkish artists that still exist as complete works, with Ottoman-language titles and text accompanying the pictures. It’s pretty hard to miss that Surname-i Hümayun or Siyar-i Nabî are authentic Ottoman works, for example. Authentic Works Melchior Lorichs, 1555-1559 Melchior Lorichs (1526/27 –…
Authentic Gentile Bellini When Sultan Mehmed II asked the Venetian Senate to send him an artist trained in European methods, Venice sent him Gentile Bellini, one of the most highly respected Venetian painters of his day. Bellini was the sultan’s guest from 1479 to 1480. During that time he painted…
From the 15th century on, Europeans were avid importers of drawings and paintings of Turks. They were also avid creators of drawings and paintings of Turks. Any image that fell into European hands was likely to be copied, recopied, engraved, re-recopied, bastardized, and copied again. Or just made up. The…
Sources for images of men’s clothing are plentiful, women’s less so. Because the focus of my own research is women’s garb, this resource list is heavy on artists who depicted women, and leaves out dozens of excellent sources that depict only men. (For example, illustrated accounts of campaigns.) However, all…
Tools Quick character reference: Ç ç Ş ş ğ ı İ Ö ö Ü ü Â â Î î Û û Type Turkish Characters is an online Turkish keyboard. Google Translate barfs when fed Ottoman Turkish, but it can be useful for translating…