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Black Bashi Bazouk
Artist: Jean Leone Gerome
Title: Black Bashi-Bazouk (Başı Bozuk)
Drawing Year: 1869
Drawing Place:
Conservation Place: Private Collection
Reference: wikipedia
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La Grande Odalisque
Artist: Jean A. D. Ingres
Title: Le Grande Odalisque
Drawing Year: 1814
Drawing Place: Rome
Conservation Place: Louvre Museum, Paris
Reference: Wikipedia
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Roxelane Haseki Hürrem Sultan
Artist: An unknown Venetian Artist
Title: Roxelana, Haseki Hürrem Sultan, Rossa Solymanni uxor,
Drawing Year: 17th century
Drawing Place: Istanbul
Conservation Place: Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul
Reference: Wikipedia
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The Battle of Varna
Artist: Stanislaw Chlebowski
Title: Battle of Varna
Drawing Year: 1879
Drawing Place: Istanbul
Conservation Place: Budapest Museum
Reference: Wikipedia
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Sultan Selim III
Artist: Constantine Kapıdağlı
Title: Sultan Selim III
Drawing Year: 1803
Drawing Place: Istanbul
Conservation Place: Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul
Reference: Wikipedia
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French ambassador's presentation of his credentials to Sultan Ahmed III
Artist: Jean Baptiste Van Mour
Title: Reception of the French ambassador le Vicompte D’Andrezel by Sultan Ahmed III
Drawing Year: 1724
Drawing Place: Istanbul
Conservation Place: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
Reference: Wikipedia
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Suleiman The Magnificent
Artist: Titian
Title: Emperor Suleiman The Magnificent
Drawing Year: sometime between 1530 and 1550
Drawing Place: Venice
Conservation Place: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Reference: http://bilddatenbank.khm.at/viewArtefact?id=2427
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The Attack of Zrinyi
Artist: Johann Peter Krafft
Title: The Attack of Zrinyi
Drawing Year: 1825
Drawing Place: Budapest, Hungary
Conservation Place: Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Reference: http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/k/krafft/index.html
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Sultan Mehmed at the Gates of Constantinople
Artist: Fausto Zonaro
Title: Entering to Constantinople
Drawing Year: 1907
Drawing Place: Istanbul
Conservation Place: Dolmabahce Palace Museum, Istanbul
Reference: http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausto_Zonaro
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Portrait of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror
Artist: Gentile Bellini
Title: Portrait of The Sultan Mehmed II
Drawing Year: 1480
Drawing Place: Istanbul
Conservation Place: The National Gallery (Layard Bequest), London
Reference: http://www.qantara-med.org/qantara4/public/show_document.php?do_id=1151&lang=en
Ottoman Art Blog 
In creating your list of Top 10 Priceless Ottoman Paintings by Western Artists, how did you make your selections – artistic connoirseurship? technical details being correct? importance of the subject to Ottoman history?
On painterly skills alone, I think the Jean Leone Gerome portrait is blissful.
That’s an excellent question.
I am quite confident about technical details of these paintings. And I tried to put down my own emotional approach. Honestly speaking, i love 19th century paintings very much than others.
But each of these paintings above has another story in Ottoman history. So i believe noone can argue about their importance. For example, #1 Bellini’s Sultan Mehmed portrait had ordered by Sultan himself and was one of the firsts of its own class and the oldest one. It represents one of the first positive contacts of Ottoman Empire with European states (Italy). Please click on the reference to read about it.
Another example; in #2, there are quite a lot of secrets hidden in the painting. Each of the characters has been chosen carefully and there are too many rumors about it.
I know that each paintings has their own tastes and atmosphere but i can say that i analyzed at least 100 paintings to form the list above. And i also asked for an expert if she agrees with me or not.
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