Sultans, Merchants, Painters

Pera Museum commemorates the 400th anniversary of Turkish-Dutch relations by hosting a very secial exhibition: Sultans, Merchants, Painters: The Early Years of Turkish-Dutch Relations. The exhibition is predominantly comprised of works portraying the diplomatic and commercial relations between the two countries in the 17th and 18th centuries. The titles of chapters are as follows: The Netherlands and Turkey: Four Hundred Years of Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Reations (A.H. de Groot); The Chamber of Levant Trade (L. van Hasselt); Dutch Trade with the Levant in the Early Modern Period (I.H. Kadi); The Turkish Paintings of Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen (1696-1764) (E. Sint Nicolaas); Catalogue; The Golden Age; Room Full of Ottomans in Amsterdam; Tulip; Series of Costume Paintings; Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen (1696-1764); Two Painters of the Levant.