Gentile Bellini at the court of Mahomet II
Oil heightened with gold on panel
58.5 x 73.5 cm; 23 by 29 3/4 in
Private collection
The Orient—including present-day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa—exerted its allure on the Western artist’s imagination centuries prior to the turn of the nineteenth century…
Zaidan Gallery 
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