Intersecting worlds - ambassadors and painters
Subtitle: ambassador portraits and art patronage of ambassadors from the 17th to the 19th century with works selected from Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Orientalist Paintings Collection
By: editor, R. Barış Kıbrıs ; translation Melis Şeyhun Çalışlar
Contributors: Kıbrıs, R. Barış, editor; Şeyhun, Melis H., translator; Suna ve İnan Kıraç Vakfı; Pera Müzesi
Series: Pera Müzesi publication -- 73; Pera Müzesi yayınları -- 73.
Publisher: Pera Museum
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Istanbul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9786054642397
Subjects: Orientalism in art; Exhibitions; Exoticism in art; East and West; Ambassadors; Portraits; Relations; In art; European Painting; European Portrait painting; Art collections; Orientalisme dans l'art; Expositions; Exotisme dans l'art; Peinture européenne; Peinture de portraits européenne; 20.05 art in relation with other areas of culture: general; Art museums; International relations; Orientalisme (art); Catalogues d'exposition; Ambassadeurs; Peintres; Suna ve İnan Kıraç Vakfı; Suna ve İnan Kıraç Vakfi
Other titles: Ambassadors and painters
Description: "Bringing together a careful selection of works from the Orientalist Painting Collection of the Suna and Inan Kıraç Foundation, the "Intersecting Worlds: Ambassadors and Painters" exhibition at the Pera Museum sheds light on Ottoman-European relations with paintings from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The paintings in the exhibition constitute interesting and select examples of the art of oreintalist painting which focus on Ottoman subject matter. Another aspect of these works is that they are also highly valuable visual documents on the diplomatic relations, figures, and life of the period."--Page 7.
Notes: This catalogue has been prepared for the exhibition "Intersecting worlds: ambassadors and painters : ambassador portraits and art patronage of ambassadors from the 17th to the 19th century with works selected from Suna and İnan Kiraç Foundation Orientalist Paintings Collection" opening October 2011 at the Suna and İnan Kiraç Foundation, Pera Museum.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English; some texts translated from Turkish.
Table of contents: title: Friend or foe? The Ottoman Empire and Europe, from Mehmed II to William II  -- Philip Mansel; title: Mutual diplomacy between Istanbul and London: the embassies of Sir Robert Ainslie and Yusuf Agâh Efendi  -- Mehmet Alaaddin Yalçınkaya; title: Diplomatic relations in the Ottoman Empire: ambassadors and portraits  -- Günsel Renda; title: Envoys and their patronage of the arts  -- Zeynep İnankur; title: Ambassador's portrait --; title: Ambassador's artist --; title: Artist biographies.