#divan

[livesunique]

Divan-ı Hümayun, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey,

The "Imperial Council Chamber", also known as the Kubbealtı ("Under the Dome"), was the administrative nerve center of the Ottoman Empire.

Once the residence of the sultans...

Mark Anthony Fox Photography

[thunderstruck9]

Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (Swedish, 1884-1965), From Arabian Nights, c.1916-18. Canvas, 57 x 57 cm.

[hemhal]

"ne yanar kimse bana âteş-i dilden özge

ne açar kimse kapım bâd-i sebâdan gayrı"

-fuzûlî

[blondebrainpowered]

The Wife of the Artist, (Maria-Josephine Marthe Kurzwell, sleeping on a divan), ca. 1902

Artist: Max Kurzweil

[plighthouse]

[russiasv]

update on Divan Umarov’s piece! I'm probably gonna make a couple more poses of him, if the references for poses and what not actually wanna work out for me; I struggle with eyes and mouths the most.

[galleryofart]

A Lady Receiving Visitors (The Reception)

Artist: John Frederick Lewis (English, 1804-1876)

Date: 1873

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

About the artist: John Frederick Lewis was a premier 19th-century British Orientalist painter renowned for his meticulously detailed, vibrant watercolors and oils of Middle Eastern life. His style is characterized by intense realism, luminous color, and a "jewel-like" effect achieved through precise, small brushstrokes. He focused on dignified domestic scenes, architecture, and, unlike many contemporaries, avoided eroticized depictions of harems.

[artemlegere]

Paolo and Francesca

Artist: Luigi Rubio (Italian, 1801–1882)

Date: 1832

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection, New York

Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (died between 1283 and 1286) was an Italian noblewoman of Ravenna, who was murdered by her husband, Giovanni Malatesta, upon his discovery of her affair with his brother, Paolo Malatesta. She was a contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy.