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in and around the seraglio
….Turkey is putting up good economic numbers, and flourishing without the militarily imposed corruption that the Kemalist guarantors of secularism wallowed in as the price of preserving modern Turkey. Tiresome though Turkey’s anti-Israel posturing and pandering to the Arabs is, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Byzantine Empire, capture of Constantinople, Conrad Black, Gentile Bellini, Grand Seraglio, Islamic Art, King Henry VIII, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mehmet II, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Empire Art, Ottoman style portraiture, Selim II The Sot, Siblizade Ahmed, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
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AXIS: BOLD AS MARKETING WITH SULTANS, SAINTS, & SINNERS
”Which multinational brand has the biggest image problem these days? BP? Toyota? Goldman Sachs? How about Islam? Say what you will about those other entities: They don’t have to deal with the public’s fear of terrorism. Last month, an opinion poll conducted … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged BP Oil Spill, Byzantine Empire, Gentile Bellini, Goldman Sachs, Irshad Manji, Islamic Art, Kristiane Backer, Mahomet II, Mara Einstein, Mehmet II, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Empire Art, Sarai Albums, Simon Houpt, Sinan Bey, YouGuv
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
”THAT is no country for old men… caught in that sensual music all neglect, Monuments of unageing intellect.” W.B. Keats from Sailing to Byzantium. All the world’s wealth seemed to pour through the trade routes of the Levant, overland from … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Basil II Bulgaroctonos, Byzantine Empire, Chora Museum Instanbul, Constantine The Great, Digenes Akritas, Fourth Crusade, Hagia Sophia, Kariye Cami, Kariye Camii, Renaissance Italy, Sack of Constantinople, Theodore Metochites, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats, Yeats Sailing to Byzantium
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