Osman Hamdi

by Shaw, Wendy M. K.

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Osman Hamdi (1842–1910) was an artist and director of the Ottoman Imperial Museum and the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts. He played a pivotal role in fashioning European formulations of art within a transforming Ottoman context. As the son of İbrahim Edhem Pasha (1819–93), Osman Hamdi was born in Istanbul to a complex cross-cultural legacy unusual even within Ottoman society. His father, who at age nine had been orphaned and enslaved during the Greek War for Independence (1821–30) and adopted by…

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Osman Hamdi (1842–1910) was an artist and director of the Ottoman Imperial Museum and the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts. He played a pivotal role in fashioning European formulations of art within a transforming Ottoman context. As the son of İbrahim Edhem Pasha (1819–93), Osman Hamdi was born in Istanbul to a complex cross-cultural legacy unusual even within Ottoman society. His father, who at age nine had been orphaned and enslaved during the Greek War for Independence (1821–30) and adopted by the Grand Admiral of the

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei3722

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eng Islam

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Shaw, Wendy M. K.

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