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The Directorate of National Palaces, an affiliate of the Turkish Presidency, has announced that the Painting Museum will reopen in autumn and exhibit five portraits of Fatih Sultan Mehmed, also known ...

A medallion believed to feature the earliest Western portrait of an Islamic ruler ... a man regarded as one of the greatest Ottoman sultans, who oversaw an empire that stretched from central ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire ... in a late-17th-century copy of “Portrait of Mehmed I” (by a painter from the school of Paolo Veronese), the sultan’s towering white turban, suggesting ...