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...exhibit containing both Western European and Turkish artistic representations of the powerful Ottoman Empire opened last weekend at the Sackler Museum...
Although many of the pieces on display are from Harvard's own Islamic art collection, the Sackler's exhibit combines Harvard museum pieces with those of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and international private collections to offer a rare glimpse into 16th and 17th century views of the Ottoman Empire. At the time, the empire was centered in what is present-day Turkey and extended west to Vienna, including within its borders Western Iran, Iraq, Arabia, Egypt and Northern Africa; it was considered to be one of the most powerful and influential political forces during what was for Western...
...Sackler exhibit quickly turns to Turkish art and connects the display with two portraits by Ottoman artists of the European monarchs Francis I of France and Charles V of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Both men appear remarkably simple in contrast to the usual European portrayal of divine monarchs as surrounded by pomp and glory. They seem grim and powerful, but the festive air which typically accompanies European monarchs of the time period is glaringly absent...
...exhibit until May 21, "The Ottomans: Images from East and West" is a short but interesting collection of works that represent a multi-ethnic vision of the empire that crossed three continents during the 16th and 17th centuries...
...very presence of its past that seems to determine the shape of Italian modernism: a systole and diastole between innovation and tradition. Particularly in the 1950s and '60s, Italian artists had a way of talking raw but painting cooked. In the early '50s, when Alberto Burri began to exhibit his paintings assembled from torn sacks and burnt strips of wood, they looked as leprous as Dubuffets. Today they seem tender, full of regard for discarded things, and about as threatening as sunlight on an old wall; one realizes this was always part of their intent. Even the Italian artists dealing...