Ottoman miniatures
Secular court painting of the 15th–18th c. — illumination, portraiture, festival books, atelier attribution.
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After Nakkaş Osman — procession study in cinnabar
A contemporary response to the Sūrnāme folio's processional composition, painted at original scale using period pigments sourced from Bergama.
On processional composition as grammar
A short essay proposing that processional compositions in late-16th-century Ottoman miniature should be read as structural grammar — figures as the tempo of the page.
Pigment-layer stratigraphy of Hazine 1344
XRF mapping cross-referenced against Ottoman atelier records, produced with AI-assisted layer separation. Full model provenance documented.
Folio from the Sūrnāme-i Hümāyūn
Attributed to Nakkaş Osman and his atelier · Istanbul · c. 1582–83
A folio from the imperial festival book chronicling the 1582 circumcision festivities of Prince Mehmed, depicting a guild procession through the Hippodrome. Watercolour and gold on paper. Topkapı Palace Museum Library, Hazine 1344.