[MR] FWD: Silks, Metalwork and Art from the Ottoman Empire Now at the Smithsonian

[Jude theObscure]

I highly recommend this exhibit to all.  The Sackler
has done a wonderful job of arranging these priceless
garmets and you can get close enough to them to see
the construction and stitching.

I can't gush enough about it!

Baska the Depraved

--- Trephina la Broderesse <trephina at gmail.com> wrote:

> This was posted on another list.  Since it is in DC
> I thought people
> going to KWAR or other events in the area - or those
> who live in the
> area - might be interested.
> 
> YIS,
> Tréphina
>
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> 
> The weekend before Atenveldt and Gleann Abhann's
> coronations, the first-ever
> international exhibition devoted to imperial Turkish
> robes, or kaftans,
> dating to the 16th-17th centuries, opened at the
> Smithsonian Institute's
> Sackler Gallery. The display, which opened October
> 29, will run through
> January 22.
> 
> Entitled "Style and Status: Imperial Costumes from
> Ottoman Turkey," the
> display features 68 objects, including a set of
> imperial clothing from the
> Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, the
> largest repository of Islamic
> textiles in the world. Some of these robes were worn
> by Sultan Selim
> (reigned 1512-20), Sultan Suleyman (reigned 1520-66)
> and his son Bayazid
> (executed 1561). Also on display are ecclesiastical
> copes and chausables,
> hats, trousers, cushions, floor coverings and
> "several large, inscribed
> textiles," ranging from silks to velvets.
> 
> See:
>
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/StyleStatus.htm.
> 
> Concurrently, a second display at the Sackler
> Gallery, "Fountains of Light:
> Islamic Metalwork from the Nuhad Es-Said
> Collection," is also on display,
> and will continue indefinitely. This display
> features 27 "inlaid brass,
> bronze and steel objects dating from the 10th-19th
> centuries" from
> Afghanistan, Anatolia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria and
> Uzbekistan from one of
> the finest collections of Islamic metalwork in
> private hands in the world.
> 
> See:
>
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/fountainsLight.htm.
> 
> The third display is "Arts of the Islamic World,"
> which also runs
> indefinitely at the Greer Gallery. It features "the
> three principal media
> for artistic expression in the Islamic world:
> architecture (both religious
> and secular), the arts of the book (calligraphy,
> illustration, illumination,
> and bookbinding), and the arts of the object
> (ceramics, metalwork, glass,
> woodwork, textiles, and ivory)" and range from the
> 9th-17th centuries and
> represent Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, North
> Africa, Syria, Turkey and
> Uzbekistan.
> 
> See:
>
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/artsofIslamic.htm.
> 
> These three sumptuous displays are in addition to
> the Sackler & Greer's
> regular collection of over 2,200 items dating from
> the 9th-20th centuries,
> including: Ceramics from the 9th-13th centuries;
> Egyptian and Syrian
> metalwork from the 13th century; A collection of
> 9th-19th century Korans
> (intact volumes and detached folios); 14th century
> Syrian glass; and a
> collection of illustrated and illuminated
> manuscripts, including the Divan
> (collected poems) of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir, ca. 1400;
> Haft Awrang (Seven
> Thrones) by Jami, dated 1556-66; and six
> illustrations from the 14th-century
> Mongol Shahnama (Book of Kings), one of the most
> important illustrated texts
> of the Islamic world.
> 
> See:
> http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/islamicHome.htm.
>
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