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1585 (ca.), [Turkey], Ottoman Army Entering a City -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This manuscript copy of Mahmud 'Abd al-Bagi's Divan (collected works) contains poems extolling the pleasures and notable events of courtly life in later sixteenth-century Istanbul. This painting illustrates the arrival of the Safavid prince Haidar Mirza, sent to the Ottoman court as a hostage to fulfill the terms of a treaty between the Ottomans and the Safavids.
1585 (ca.), [Turkey], Ottoman Army Entering a City -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This manuscript copy of Mahmud 'Abd al-Bagi's Divan (collected works) contains poems extolling the pleasures and notable events of courtly life in later sixteenth-century Istanbul. This painting illustrates the arrival of the Safavid prince Haidar Mirza, sent to the Ottoman court as a hostage to fulfill the terms of a treaty between the Ottomans and the Safavids.