Portraits - TRAVELLERS' VIEWS - Places – Monuments – People Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean – Greece – Asia Minor

Castellania building, medieval town of Rhodes.

Reconstruction of Saint John's lodge in the medieval town of Rhodes. Knight Louis de Graon announces to Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson the approach of the Ottoman fleet under Mehmed II (1480).

Portrait of Bernard Eugène Antoine Rottiers.

Tamerlane imprisons Sultan Beyazid I.

Sultan Mehmet II decides upon the execution of his wife Irene.

Prince Mustafa assassinated in the campaign tent of his father, Suleiman I, who is present (on the left), encouraging moreover the assassinators.

The Janissary corp overthrows Sultan Osman II.

Sultan Mahmud II on his way to the mosque.

Portrait of Sultan Selim III.

Portrait of Nadir-Schah of Persia (1698 -1747).

Portait of Karim Han, of Persia.

Portrait of Shah Mohammad Ali Han of Persia (1760-1779).

Portrait of the abbot (hegoumenos) of Iviron monastery, Mount Athos.

Portrait of Countess Guiccioli, lover of Lord Byron during his stay in Ravenna, Italy.

Illustration for the poem of Lord Byron "The Giaour": Portrait of Greek woman from Peloponnese.

Illustration for the poem of Lord Byron "The Corsair": Greek slave girl.

Illustration for the poem of Lord Byron "The Maid of Athens": Tereza Makri, platonic love of Lord Byron and one of his muses during his stay in Athens.

Portrait of Sultan Suleiman I.

Portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I.

Portrait of the Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa (ca. 1475-1546).

Portrait of Busbecq, Austrian diplomatic emissary to the Sublime Gate in the 16th century.

Portrait of Sultan Suleiman I.

Portrait of Sultan Suleiman I. Suleimaniye mosque in the background.

Portrait of Ismael, Persian emissary to the court of Suleiman I.

Saint Jerome.

Composition of scenes from the rise and fall of Sabbatai Zevi, the rabi who claimed to be the Messiah of the Jews until he was forced to convert to Islam by the Ottoman Sultan (17th century). Sabbatai Zevi claims to be the Messiah. Sabbatai Zevi enthroned by his followers. Ottoman soldiers arrest Sabbatai Zevi in the Dardanelles. From: J. Chr. Wagner, Delineatio Provinciarum Pannoniae et Imperii Turcici in Oriente, Augsburg, 1684.

Mehme Rifa Pasha, general governor of Thessaloniki, deposed after the murder of the consuls in May 1876. From Le Monde Illustré (1876).

Murder of the French and German consuls by the mob in Thessaloniki, May 1876. Portrait of murdered consul of France Jules Moulin. From Le Journal Illustré, May 1876.

Public deposition of three high-ranking administrative officials of Thessaloniki on 21 August 1876, following the murder of the consuls. From Le Monde Illustré, 1876.

Portrait of Theodorus Gaza.

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