In today’s episode, Isabelle Imbert welcomes Dr Suzanne Compagnon, post-doctoral fellow at the university of Utrecht. Suzanne recently got her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna with a thesis focused on Turkish Ottoman painting, and more specifically on the single-page figures produced by the painters Levni and Bukhari in the first quarter of the 18th century. Ottoman painting in general has not been studied as much as its Persian and Indian counterparts, and Suzanne dived into the topic with passion. In the episode, they talk about the career and work of these two painters, their sources of inspiration, powdered wigs, bonnets, and much more.
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Mentioned in the Episode and Further Links
- Follow the Art Informant on Instagram and X
- Follow Suzanne on Academia
- Read Suzanne’s Ph.D. dissertation online (open access)
- Suzanne Compagnon, “Clothed in Sensuality: The Levnī Workshop’s Reception of Safavid Single Sheets in Relation to Clothing“, Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 8.
- Bağcı, Serpil, Filiz Çağman, and Günsel Renda. Ottoman Painting. Engl. ed., 2nd ed. . Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Yayınları, 2010.
- Esin Atil, Levni and the Surname: the Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Festival, University of Washington Press, 2000.
- Review of the book and reproductions of paintings on Istanbul travelogue website (2014)
- Gwendolyn Collaço, “‘Word-Seizing’ Albums: Imported Paintings from ʿAcem and Hindūstān on an Eclectic Ottoman Market“, Ars Orientalis, 51 (2021), pp. 133-187 (open access on Academia)
- Atbaş, Zeynep. ‘Evrak-ı Perişandan Evrak-ı Şahaneye: Mehmed Emîn Efendi’nin Kitap ve Murakkaları’. In Osmanlı Kitap Koleksiyonerleri ve Koleksiyonları: İtibar ve İhtiras, edited by Tülay Artan and Hatice Aynur, 501–44. Istanbul: Dergâh Yayınları, 2022.
- Album Arabe 6076, Bibliotheque nationale de France (digitised)
- Album Arabe 6077, Bibliotheque nationale de France (digitised)
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Reproductions of Artworks discussed in the Episode (click on the images to see more information)
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