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Item Number: 120450
Title: Bartholomäus Schachman (1559-1614) : The Art of Travel
Author: Nefedova, Olga (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788857214641
Description: Milan: Skira, 2012. 29cm., hardcover, 317pp. prof. illus., most in color. English text. Exhibition held at National Museum, Gdansk. Summary: One of the most popular travel destinations among nobles, wealthy merchants, travellers and diplomats during the sixteenth century was the world of the Ottoman Empire, as European–Ottoman relations pervaded the centuries, combining cultural, political and economic interests. So there was increasing demand for pictorial as well as written records of life in the Ottoman world. Travellers and diplomats commissioned artists as an essential part of their duty to bring back to their countries as much information as possible on all things Turkish. One such record is an album dated 1590 and commissioned by Bartholomäus Schachman, mayor of Danzig (Gdan´sk), traveller and explorer, art patron and collector, benefactor and connoisseur. His journey through the Ottoman Empire lasted two years (1588–89), and his album, conveying the tale of his adventures, became one of the greatest travelogues of the sixteenth century.
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