The Ambassador, the Sultan, and the Artist

The Ambassador, the Sultan, and the Artist

An Audience in Istanbul

by Günsel Renda, Rijksmuseum (Netherlands), Duncan Bull, E. Sint Nicolaas

48 pages· ISBN 9789040087899
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When the Dutch ambassador Cornelis Calkoen came to the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul to present his credentials to Sultan Ahmed III, he had this important event recorded by the painter Jean Baptiste Vanmour. Together with the many depictions of court dignitaries and genre pieces by Vanmour, these paintings provide a remarkable picture of life at the Ottoman court in the first half of the eighteenth century.

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