ytellioglu:A view of The Fountain Of Life (1904) ~Turkish: Ab-ı Hayat Çeşmesi~ and Osman Hamdi Bey p
ytellioglu:A view of The Fountain Of Life (1904) ~Turkish: Ab-ı Hayat Çeşmesi~ and Osman Hamdi Bey portarit painting in Museum of Islamic Art (in the Tiled Kiosk - Çinili Köşk) Istanbul Archaeology Museums in Şehr-i İstanbul Turkey. Osman Hamdi Bey (1842 – 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman statesman, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering Turkish painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is considered as the pioneer of the museum curator’s profession in Turkey. He was the founder of Istanbul Archaeology Museums ~Turkish: İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri~ and of İstanbul Academy of Fine Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi in Turkish), known today as the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts (Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar). -- source link
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