Elizabeth Rodini on the lives of Bellini's portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II Turkey Book Talk

Elizabeth Rodini on "Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image" (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury).

The book explores how and why the Venetian painter came to the Ottoman court in 1479, as well as his portrait's many intriguing afterlives in subsequent centuries.

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