They represent a high point of Ottoman art and craftsmanship, embodying the cultural synthesis of the empire. Used extensively in religious and royal architecture, such as the Blue Mosque in ...

Over the course of two years, al-Sattuf, who has a degree in art history from Aleppo University, assembled mosaic portraits of 36 Ottoman sultans. The massive art project took some 1.5 million ...

A celebration not of conflict but of reciprocal art and culture, “Venice and the Ottoman Empire” shines on multiple fronts. But its Italian pictures, often anonymous and second-tier ...