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Beyân-ı Menâzil-i Sefer-i Irakeyn
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1537. 128 topographical miniatures of Istanbul, Baghdad, Tabriz and the campaign route.Historical contextThis work belongs to the history of Miniature Painting, a tradition traced on Matchless Pieces from its origins to the present.
| Artist / Maker | Matrakçı Nasuh |
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About the Artist
1480–1564, Ottoman EmpirePolymath of Süleyman’s court — mathematician, swordsman, historian — who invented the Ottoman topographical miniature. His Beyân-ı Menâzil records every halt of the 1534–35 Iraq campaign as a bird’s-eye city portrait with no human figures, a uniquely Ottoman genre. Full biography →
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