Milhan Karagül

A collection of my favorite paintings, portraits, poems and quotes.

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When power leads man to arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. -John F. Kennedy

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A sundial inscribed carpe diem

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Sultan Ahmed III receives French ambassador Vicomte d'Andrezel at Topkapı Palace

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The Rebuke of Adam and Eve by Domenichino (1626)

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Painting of Battle of Chaldiran at the central audience hall of Chehel Sotoun Palace

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Soviet poster by Elizaveta Kruglikova advocating female literacy. The top section reads Woman! Learn to read and write! At the bottom Oh, mommy! If you were literate, you could help me!

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A cartoon published after Lloyd George's resignation

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Miniature Pope Urban II preaching at the Council of Clermont. Sébastien Mamerot, Les passages d'outremer

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Gurbette saygıyla izliyorum Geleneğini eski zamanların Bir kuşu özgürlüğe salıyorum Parlak şöleninde ilkbaharın

Artık avuntusuz değilim Ve küsmüyorum yazgıma Mademki özgür kılabildim Tek bir varlığı da olsa

-Aleksandr Sergeyeviç Puşkin

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The cruel death of Calas, who was broke on the wheel at Toulouse, 10 March 1762

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A Russian soldier overlooking Istanbul in 1878

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Immanuel Kant, Beantwortung der Frage Was ist Aufklärung. Beginn des Traktats. (EA 1784). (Immanuel Kants vermischte Schriften; Hrsg. Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk; Bd. 2. Halle 1799)

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Humiliation of Olivera Despina, Bayezid and Timur (ca. 1700) by Andrea Celesti

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Patriarch Gennadius II with Mehmed II depicted on a 20th-century mosaic

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Adolf Hitler looks at a bust of Friedrich Nietzsche during a visit at Villa Silberblick in Weimar (1931)

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Posthumous painting of Anne Boleyn at Hever Castle, c. 1583

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Zu den blauen Flaschen, (Schlossergassl) coffee house scene