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“ Quando Maometto II s'impadronì di Costantinopoli, la città non era più da diversi decenni la grande metropoli del passato; già prima del 1453 numerosi abitanti l'avevano abbandonata, e ancorché non si possa stabilire esattamente l'ammontare della popolazione nel momento della conquista, essa era molto probabilmente inferiore ai 100.000 abitanti. Questi, beninteso, erano greci nella quasi totalità, anche se esisteva già un piccolo nucleo di musulmani, la cui presenza risaliva almeno alla seconda metà del XIV secolo. Subito dopo aver conquistato la città, Maometto II deportò la maggior parte della restante popolazione greca, e per sostituirla fece venire dei turchi dall'Asia minore, ma anche dei non musulmani già sottomessi all'autorità ottomana, che risiedevano in Anatolia nelle province balcaniche. Questo primo popolamento effettuato dai turchi ha lasciato tracce nella capitale, in quanto i nuovi arrivati si sono raggruppati secondo il luogo d'origine e hanno spesso dato questo nome ai quartieri che occupavano, come per esempio i quartieri di Aksaray, di Balat, di Karaman, di Çarşamba, popolati da genti provenienti dalle città omonime. Tra le minoranze che furono installate a Istanbul negli anni che seguirono la conquista, citiamo i greci delle isole e del Peloponneso, gli armeni d'Asia minore, gli ebrei di Salonicco. Praticamente questi trasferimenti di popolazione sono attuati in modo autoritario e si potrebbe quasi parlare di deportazione. In ogni caso i nuovi arrivati si videro attribuire le case abbandonate dai greci e alcune facilitazioni per esercitare nella capitale la loro attività artigianale o commerciale: Maometto II voleva restituire a Costantinopoli vita e animazione e fare della città il primo centro del mondo musulmano, soppiantando il Cairo, ancora nelle mani dei mamelucchi. Egli proseguì nel suo intento e le conquiste che fece nei Balcani facilitarono l'impresa. Non è tuttavia certo che la popolazione di Istanbul, alla fine del XV secolo, superasse le 200.000-250.000 unità. “
Robert Mantran, La vita quotidiana a Costantinopoli ai tempi di Solimano iI Magnifico e dei suoi successori (XVI-XVII secolo), traduzione di Maria Luisa Mazzini, BUR (Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli), Milano, 1985¹; pp. 75-76.
[Edizione originale: La Vie quotidienne à Constantinople au temps de Soliman le Magnifique et de ses successeurs (XV ͤ et XVII ͤ siècles), Paris, Hachette, coll. « La vie quotidienne », 1965 ]
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11 e 12 settembre 1683 le nazioni Cattoliche con il beato Marco d'Aviano, vincono a Vienna
Anniversario della battaglia di Vienna dell’11 e 12 settembre 1683: sotto la guida del Papa Innocenzo XI le nazioni cattoliche sconfissero i Turchi e salvarono la Cristianità. Un secolo più tardi le nazioni cattoliche infiltrate dalle logge massoniche, divennero apostate e sovvertirono la Cristianità. I laicisti e anticlericali che festeggiano il 1789 non possono, ovviamente, festeggiare il…
#battaglia di Vienna#cattolicità#Europa cristiana#Innocenzo XI#islam#Marco d&039;Aviano#musulmani#ottomani#Sobieski#Turchi#Ussari
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PRIMA PAGINA Giornale Di Sicilia di Oggi lunedì, 12 agosto 2024
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jael slaying sisera / judith slaying holofernes
#artist is jan de bray#artist is alessandro turchi#artist is artemisia gentileschi#artist is caravaggio#artedit#art history#art#arthistoryedit#tw:blood
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Alessandro Turchi (1578–1649)
Erminia finds the wounded Tancred, 1630 (detail).
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Alessandro Turchi
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"Allegory of Hope" {1617 - 1618} By ~ Alessandro Turchi
#clothing in art#historical fashion#1610s#1600s#tudor#alessandro turchi#era: 1600s#cm: metallics#fabric prints#sleeves#2d art
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Charity
Artist: Alessandro Turchi (Italian, 1578-1649)
Date: 1615-1620
Place of Creation: Verona, Veneto, Italy
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Collection: National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
#painting#oil on canvas#allegory#symbolism#human figures#charity#philosophical#children#woman#female#costume#torch#clouds#symbols#alessandro turchi#italianh art#17th century painting#breastfeeding#italian painter#european art
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Alessandro Turchi - Jael and Sisera, ca. 1605.
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Our Lady of the Turks (1968)
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" Scala dei Turchi " //© Sebastien Nagy
#Scala dei Turchi#Sicilia#Italy#nature#landscape#mountainscape#seascape#oceanscape#cliff#shoreline#coastline#aesthetics#wanderlust#explore#follow#discover
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Poetry
Artist: Alessandro Turchi (Italian, 1578-1649)
Date: 1606
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The Royal Collection, United Kingdom
Description
This painting depicting Poetry formed one side of an organ shutter originally painted for the organ in the newly built music hall at the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona. When the shutters were opened, Music appeared on the left with Poetry on the right. The figure was inspired by Cesare Ripa's Iconologia and the artist probably consulted the 1603 edition which has some woodcut illustrations. Identifiable primarily by their costume and the attributes they hold. Crowned with a laurel wreath, Poetry is dressed in blue to show that poetry is a heavenly art; her head is winged, to convey her 'flights of Fancy'; she holds a book in one hand and, in the other, a laurel branch, sharpened like a quill pen. Ripa includes the laurel crown, wings on head, book in left hand and 'sceptre' of laurel, but there is no woodcut illustration.
King's Bed Chamber, Windsor Castle
#painting#oil on canvas#poetry#female figure#costume#laurel wreath#book#laurel branch#wings#alessandro turchi#italian painter#european art#artwork#oil on canvas painting#17th century painting#the royal collection
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The Judgement of Paris
Artist: Alessandro Turchi (Italian, 1578–1649)
Date: ca. 1640
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States
Description
Turchi enjoyed a prestigious career in Rome, where he became head of the Accademia di San Luca in 1637. This painting is characteristic of his historical subjects: monumental figures presented in a frieze and executed with soft, sfumato effects of paint and light.
The Judgement of Paris is a story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War, and in later versions to the foundation of Rome.
Eris, the goddess of discord, was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. In revenge, she brought a golden apple, inscribed, "To the fairest one," which she threw into the wedding. Three guests, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, after some disputation, agreed to have Paris of Troy choose the fairest one. Paris chose Aphrodite, she having bribed him with the most beautiful mortal woman in the world, Helen of Sparta, wife of Menelaus. Whereupon Paris carried Helen off to Troy, and the Greeks invaded Troy for Helen's return. Eris' Apple of Discord was thus the instrumental casus belli (or her not being invited to the wedding in the first place) of the Trojan War.
#mythological art#painting#oil on canvas#greek mythology#mythological characters#eris#goddess of discord#peleus#theris#hera#athena#aphrodite#nude character#the judgement of paris#landscape#cloth#alessandro turchi#italian painter#artwork#italian art#european art
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Alessandro Turchi, dit l'Orbetto - Léda et le cygne
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scala dei turchi/sicily series 176
© 2022 Yiannis Krikis
#scala dei turchi#lensblr#lensculture#fine art photography#photographers on tumblr#sicily#italy#landscape#black and white
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Christ Taking Leave of his Mother and Foretelling his Passion
Artist: Alessandro Turchi (Italian, 1578-1649)
Date: c. 1600-1649
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Collection: The Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom
Description
The incident of Christ taking leave of his mother is not mentioned in the Gospels but is told in the Pseudo-Bonaventura's Meditations on the Life of Christ. The present composition is an unusually elaborate development of theme. Christ stands at the right, with his right hand on his chest and his left pointing upwards, presumably indicating his heavenly father's will. In the sky above Christ is God the Father, seated on clouds, and three angels bearing the instruments of the Passion; the Cross and hammer; the spear, the reed with the sponge and nails; and the column and flails. In the foreground, opposite Christ, stands the his mother Mary. She is weeping as she contemplates Christ's future. In the sky immediately above her head a child angel holds the crown of thorns and a dagger or short sword, presumably referring to Simeon's prophecy to her: 'Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also.' (Luke 2.35).
The picture is of high quality and it is now thought likely to be by Turchi himself. No other comparable composition by him seems to exist, so this painting could conceivably be the one painted by Turchi for his patrons the Gherardini family at Verona. The Gherardini collection was dispersed at some time in the eighteenth century, when the picture could have been acquired by Joseph Smith, who is known to have acquired other pictures by Turchi from Verona.
#painting#oil on canvas#christianity#christian art#passion of christ#alessandro turchi#italian painter#jesus#mary mother of jesus#angels#god the father#holy bible#new testament#gospel of luke#17th century painting
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