Saints, Sultans and Silks: Visiting the V&A’s Istanbul Exhibition
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'We wanted to show how those activities in Istanbul, actually parts of them, were adopted in the rest of Europe,' says curator Tim Stanley
The exhibition “From Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires,” realized at the Victoria and Albert Museum with the support of Koç Holding, opens its doors in London on November 7th. Showcasing Istanbul's 1600-year-old creative heritage, the exhibition will bring together over 200 rare works bearing the traces of two empires for art lovers.
Saints, sultans and silks: Visiting the V&A’s Istanbul exhibition
An exhibition about Istanbul’s two empires of Christianity and Islam opens, just about, with the third empire – the Roman one – at a time when the Roman Emperor Constantine was (probably) still not fully Christian It opens with a huge mosaic, one of the few surviving fragments of the early Roman palace in Constantinople, but quickly switches to a roughly chronological history of the city of many names through its Christian and Islamic history. …
Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy visited the "From Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires" exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Regarding the exhibition, which tells the nearly 1600-year history of Istanbul through more than 200 artifacts, Ersoy said, "We will continue to promote our country's cultural richness in leading art and culture centers around the world and to bring Istanbul's unique herita…
The art and cultural heritage of Istanbul during the period when it served as the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The exhibition, titled "From Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires," includes a 16th-century caftan belonging to Selim II from the Topkapi Palace collection, a portrait of Mehmed the Conqueror by Gentile Bellini, and Osman Hamdi Bey's painting "Women …
Minister of Culture and Tourism Ersoy visited the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which tells the 1600-year history of Istanbul with more than 200 artifacts. Ersoy stated that the mosaics of the Great Palace will be exhibited outside Istanbul for the first time since their discovery.
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