David Roxburgh, ed.
Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600–1600
Royal Academy of Arts,
2004.
496 pp.; many color ills.; 375 ills.
Cloth
(1903973562)
Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 22–April 12, 2005
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May 27, 2005
Attributed to Siblizade Ahmed. Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II (ca. 1480). Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul. H.2153, fol.10a.
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Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600–1600 is an ambitious and highly informative exhibition. With 376 items on display from 53 lending institutions—such is the wealth of material that it is hard to believe it took barely fifteen months to assemble—the show constitutes an important part of a program of all things Turkish in London. The aim is to unravel the cultural origins of the Ottomans (or the Turks, as Ottomans were commonly known...