拍品专文
Osman Hamdy Bey was one of the leading figures of Turkish artistic life. He was sent to study in Paris from 1857-1869 by his father, the Grand Vizir Müsir Ethem Pasha.
As a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jean-Léon Gérôme, he was the first Turkish painter to break with the Turkish pictorial tradition. Hamdy Bey was appointed Keeper of the Ottoman Museum, Constantinople in 1881 and Principal of the Imperial School of Arts, Constantinople in 1883. He enjoyed a wide reputation; as an archaeologist opening the sarcophagus at Sidon in 1887, and as a collector of carpets, ceramics, costumes and arms.
The tomb of the Ottoman Sultan, Chelebi Sultan Mehmed I, was completed 40 days before his death in 1421, in the old Ottoman Capital of Bursa. Yesil Türbe, or the Green Tomb, owes its name to the turquoise tiles covering the sides on the exterior. Hajji Ivaz Pasha, the architect of the whole complex, was probably the architect of the tomb. The interior of the tomb is famous for the magnificent polychrome tiled cenotaph of Mehmed I, with its innovative use of naturalistic flowers.
As a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jean-Léon Gérôme, he was the first Turkish painter to break with the Turkish pictorial tradition. Hamdy Bey was appointed Keeper of the Ottoman Museum, Constantinople in 1881 and Principal of the Imperial School of Arts, Constantinople in 1883. He enjoyed a wide reputation; as an archaeologist opening the sarcophagus at Sidon in 1887, and as a collector of carpets, ceramics, costumes and arms.
The tomb of the Ottoman Sultan, Chelebi Sultan Mehmed I, was completed 40 days before his death in 1421, in the old Ottoman Capital of Bursa. Yesil Türbe, or the Green Tomb, owes its name to the turquoise tiles covering the sides on the exterior. Hajji Ivaz Pasha, the architect of the whole complex, was probably the architect of the tomb. The interior of the tomb is famous for the magnificent polychrome tiled cenotaph of Mehmed I, with its innovative use of naturalistic flowers.