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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
Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (Swedish, 1884-1965), From Arabian Nights, c.1916-18. Canvas, 57 x 57 cm.
The Wife of the Artist, (Maria-Josephine Marthe Kurzwell, sleeping on a divan), ca. 1902
Artist: Max Kurzweil
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.
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.
Yılda bir kurbân keserler halk-ı âlem îyd için
Dem be dem sâat be sâat ben senin kurbanınam.
(Diğer insanlar yılda bir kez kurban keser Senin rızanı kazanmak- bayram kutlamak için. Oysa ben her gün, her saat Senin kurbanınım.)
Fuzuli Divanı, Fuzuli
Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)
Artist: Samuel F. B. Morse (American, 1791–1872)
Date: ca. 1836–1837
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States
Description
The full-length portrait of Susan Walker Morse (1819–1885), the eldest daughter of the artist, was painted during the crucial years of the invention of Morse's telegraph (ca. 1835–37). The painting shows the girl at about the age of seventeen, sitting with a sketchbook in her lap and pencil in hand with her eyes raised in contemplation. Although traditionally described as a Muse, the figure is more likely a personification of the art of drawing or design. Morse drew on the full extent of his European training, taking from the works of Rubens and Veronese in what was to be an ambitious farewell to his career as an artist. Stymied by a lack of financial success, he abandoned painting for science and inventing. This painting was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1837, where it won enthusiastic praise. Susan married Edward Lind in 1839 and moved to his sugar plantation in Puerto Rico, returning often to New York to spend extended periods with her father, who had been left a widower when Susan was just six. She gradually grew less and less happy with her husband and plantation life. Lind died in 1882; in 1885, Susan set out to return to New York permanently but tragically was lost at sea.
