"Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art From the Khalili Collection," opening ... attests to the unchanging nature of the religious aesthetic. Typically, the illuminations are highly decorative ...

While we often think directly to the British Empire when we reflect on imperialist looting, other empires made noteworthy seizures of culturally significant art and artifacts too. Albeit lesser in ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... And Ottoman textiles surrounded and enveloped religious ...

Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire ... non-Muslim religious authorities to monitor their own people.

art, architecture, and music were all areas of cultural exchange and fusion. A highly significant Ottoman influence in Lebanon was the millet system that allowed different religious communities ...

And he talks about the involvement of Ataturk in the later stages of the genocide of around 2.5 million Christians of the Ottoman empire; how “religions do drive people to excessive violence ...

This ambitious cross-cultural exhibition examines the complex links between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire from 1400 ... of more than 150 works of art in a broad range of media ...

Savannah’s international presence as the third busiest seaport in the United States makes the arrival of Venice and the Ottoman Empire even ... is the oldest public art museum in the South ...

A hundred years ago, the Ottoman Empire slipped ... by the semi-mythical figure of Osman, a potentate of the late 13th century whose descendants carved out an empire in Anatolia that at one ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, is a luxurious introduction to the complex, symbiotic relationship between two rival maritime empires. It’s an import ...