Istanbul's National Painting Palace Reopens After Renovation
January 18 2021
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from Istanbul that the city's National Palaces Painting Museum has reopened after a 3-4 year renovation project. The museum, which was first opened in 1856, houses a vast collection of paintings from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries drawn from various palaces. The latest exhibition there will loan 3,000 works from the Topkapı Palace.
The photo above shows Turkey's president ErdoÄŸan examining Felix-Auguste Clement's Hunt in the Desert, the largest orientalist painting in the country supposedly.
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