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Kapalıçarşı - Istanbul, Turkey by Salvator Barki #photography #travel

Study of the moon and stars. Ottoman miniature from 17th century. Istanbul.

Topkapi Sarayi Palace - Istanbul

Kitab-i Bahriye (Book of the Sea) Venice, as rendered by Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis in his Kitab-i Bahriye, a book of portolan charts and sailing directions produced in the early 16th century.

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Sultanahmet from Hagia Sophia - Istanbul, Turkey

On 11 May 1747, the Ottoman Padishah Mahmud the First sent an embassy with valuable gifts and led by Kesriyeli Ahmed Pasha to Nadir Shah. Among the gifts which Sultan Mahmud sent was a particularly outstanding dagger whose handle and sheath were decorated with precious stones. The Treasury Master had had this dagger made by the foremost jewelers of Istanbul, having provided all the stones necessary from the Treasury.

"Combing hair" by Osman Hamdi Bey. Painted by the Turkish artist in about 1900. Osman Hamdi was unusual as a native of the Ottoman Empire who had trained with western orientalist painters like Gerome. His images are a lot more conservative than the French artists and are similar to J.F. Lewis's work from half a century before.

Topkapi, Istanbul

Hagia Sophia ( Ayasofya ) , Istanbul, Turkey