Topkapi Palace served as the ... porcelain, cutlery, art and fabric collections. Previous visitors loved admiring the palace's architecture and perusing its exhibits, saying you'll need several ...

"This,” said the guide who was taking us around the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul ... when she exhibited one of her paintings, Harem Interior, in Paris. It was a rather a tame account of ...

If nothing else, stop by for the gorgeous robes and kaftans densely embroidered with floral patterns, which are works of art to rival the palace’s tile work. Topkapi is a place of fabulous tall ...

Yet as a new exhibit at Washington’s Corcoran Gallery of Art reminds us, such rulers actually existed until late in the 1800s. “Palace of Gold & Light: Treasures from the Topkapi, Istanbul ...

The Topkapi Palace, one of the great historical sights of Istanbul, was founded in the 1460s by Sultan Mehmet II after he had occupied and sacked Constantinople, effectively ending the Byzantine ...

Istanbul was the true heart of this art," Kocaman added. The museum is slated to open by year-end, offering a lens into centuries of cross-cultural exchange and Ottoman opulence. Topkapi Palace ...

Mustafa Aksay and Omer Faruk Aksoy organized "Unseen Stages of Mecca and Medinah in Topkapi Palace" in cooperation with Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum and the King Abdulaziz Research and Archive ...