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Transylvanian rugs at the Sakip Sabanci Museum,
Istanbul
Exhibition at the Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul: In Praise of God - Anatolian Rugs in Transylvanian Churches opened till
19 August 2007.
About 40 remarcable Ottoman rugs from the Churches in Transylvania and from museums in Berlin and Budapest, of which very few survived in Turkey, were exhibited at the SSM in Istanbul.
This excellent exhibition, which was not part of the official ICOC program, has been assembled by Nazan Olcer and Michael Franses
inspired by the volume Antique Ottoman Rugs in Transylvania edited by Stefano Ionescu.
After the exhibitions in Rome 2005 and Berlin 2006 this is another occasion to admire a larger selection of 'Transylvanian' rugs displayed in a reconstruction of the context where these rugs survived.
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Recreated church room at the exhibition |
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Stefano Ionescu presenting to Nazan Olcer and Selmin Kangal the new, revised and expanded edition of the book Antique Ottoman Rugs in Transylvania, launched
18 April 2007 in Istanbul. |
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Double niche 'Transylvanian' rug late 17th century from the Hungarian National Museum,
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Plain niche 'Transylvanian' rug late 17th century from the Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu |
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Note: Flash photos were
forbidden at the museum and the two rug photos are archive photos. Photo
courtesy Stefano Ionescu
Jozan Magazine 5 May 2007 |
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