Format:
1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Reproduktion Also published in print
ISBN:
1838604820
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9781838604837
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9781838604813
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9781838604820
Content:
"This book traces the history of the famous portrait of the Turkish Sultan Mehmed II by Gentile Bellini, which has appeared, Zelig-like, at critical historical moments from its production in Istanbul to its current home in the National Gallery in London and the modern Turkish imagination. Structured as the biography of an object, Elizabeth Rodini explores key moments in the picture's history, such as when the famed Orientalist and excavator of ancient Nineveh, Austen Henry Layard, recovered the picture and gave it pride of place in his Venetian palace, and how in 1999, the picture returned to Istanbul, in a solo show that opened just days before Turkey made its first petition to join the European Union. In so doing she explores the meanings that were imposed on it in different times and places. The book's methodological questions range broadly, from the nature of historical evidence and interpretations of portraiture, to the shifting status of authenticity and verisimilitude in different cultural contexts. It is at once the history of a picture's place in evolving dialogues between East and West, an investigation-through-practice of historical and art historical methodologies, and a meditation on the many and varied ways that objects construct meanings."--
Content:
4 History, Memory, and the Trails from Istanbul to Venice -- Hanging in a Venetian palace? -- Copy in Como? -- Lost in Venice? -- 5 Self and Other Excavating the Orientalist Imagination -- "Journey into history"9 -- Self and Other -- 6 Constructing Authenticity Restoration, Provenance, and Reproduction -- Caring for pictures -- Provenance, reproduction, and renown -- Mirror images -- 7 To London? Emerging Debates over Cultural Patrimony -- An international picture in Venice -- Cultural nationalism and Italian legislation -- Implementation and outcome
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8 Art, History, or Heirloom Classifying Gentile's Portrait in the Twentieth Century -- "Once a portrait, always a portrait"? -- Portraiture and the "Galleria Layard" -- Museum frameworks -- 9 Return to Istanbul Situating Mehmed's Image Today -- Second conquest -- The legacy of Fatih -- Neo-Ottomanism -- Journeying back -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates
Content:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Pursuing a Portrait Subject, Object, Method -- Room A -- Between time and space -- Stories and quests -- Globalism and relevance -- 2 In Circulation Courtly Exchange and the Discourse of Objects -- Mehmed II as potentate and patron -- An artist and an album at court -- 3 Encounters Artist, Subject, Audiences, and the Matter of Truth in Painting -- Verisimilitude, at the Ottoman court -- Verisimilitude, in Venice
Note:
Also published in print.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781838604813
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781838604820
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rodini, Elizabeth Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II : Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image London : I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited,c2020
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781838604837
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