The Image of Turks in Europe in the 17th Century exhibition was held at Sabancı University's Sakıp Sabancı Museum, and showed how the Ottoman-European relationships and political events has reflected in Arts, a theme common with the previously held exhibition entitled From the Medicis to the Savoias, Ottoman Splendour in Florentine Collections.
Along with being a rich art collection for the museums, the large number of portraits where the foreigners pose in Turkish costumes in their homeland after fighting with the Turks, showing how "Fear from the Turks" converted into a fascination, and the goods from the Ottomans that are either gained from wars, received as presents or bought, and the important role that they played in the European social life have always been interesting subjects for historians and other social researchers.
In the exhibition, 92 oil paintings, landscapes and engravings, coming from different Museums in Central Europe (especially Slovenia) and private collections from England and Turkey, were displayed. The exhibition was made possible with the contributions of Credit Suisse.
331 pp, pb, color figures, in Turkish.
