By Akin Nazli in Belgrade An unnamed investor has spent £1,016,000 ($1.35mn) acquiring orientalist painter Osman Hamdi Bey’s ...

At Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul sends a renewed message of solidarity to Palestine – through art, memory and echoes of an ...

Monitor Istanbul.From bronze grids to bartered memories, this week’s Istanbul wanderings trace the lines between structure ...

Third episode, tonight on TV, Monday, April 28, in prime time on Rai1, with Rai Cultura and 'Ulisse, il piacere della ...

A recently rediscovered painting by 19th-century Ottoman painter Osman Hamdi Bey sold for £1 million ... Set within a richly ...

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A new show illuminates the rich artistic wonders that arose out of the 400 years of commerce between the Republic of Venice ...

From Istanbul to Vienna to London ... Turkish — or should I say, Ottoman — feature of the picture,” Piening notes. Objects within the painting add layers of cultural symbolism and material ...

Topkapi Palace served as the home of the Ottoman Sultans from 1478 to 1856 and is one of Istanbul's most popular ... porcelain, cutlery, art and fabric collections. Previous visitors loved ...