Tag Archives: Sultan Selim the Grim

sultans of swing: grim tunes

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Dave

The beheaded and the beholden. The Grand Seraglio. Within its walls the Turkish Sultans sought the answer to a perplexing and ancient question: Can absolute power bring absolute bliss? It brought a lot of absolutes to be sure, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Barnette Miller, Charles Martel, Grand Seraglio, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, Lady Mary Whortley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Baudier, Ottaviano Bon, Ottoman Janissaries, Sultan Ahmed I, Sultan Selim the Grim | Leave a comment

traveling man

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Dave

One day in the Moslem year 756, or 1355 A.D. , a well known Moroccan theologian began to dictate his memoirs. Better known as Ibn Battuta, he was fifty-one, a scholar and a well respected judge, but principally known as … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Abou Zayd, Abu Zayd, Abu Zayd Maqamat, Ibn Battuta, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Persian miniatures, Selim II The Sot, Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan Selim II, Sultan Selim the Grim | Leave a comment

THE HAREM, THE SULTAN, THE PAINTER, THE EUNICH & HIS LOVER

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Dave

”The pressures of being prince aren’t easy in any royal family, and history is full of eccentric rulers, warped by a childhood spent under a golden thumb. But the stakes in the house of Osman were higher then in any … Continue reading →