İstanbul in the Menazilname by Matrakçı Nasuh (detail of Hagia Sophia)

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Matrakçı Nasuh'un İstanbul ve Galata betimlemesi

Artist / Maker	Matrakçı Nasuh
Date	1537
Culture / Origin	Beyan-i Menazil-i Sefer-i 'Irakenyn-i Sultan Suleyman Han, 1537-1538 (Istanbul University Library, T. 5964)
Dimensions	600×600 px (digital)
Department	miniature-painting
Type	Manuscript painting

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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Image & data: Wikimedia Commons · Licence: Public domain.

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