An Ottoman Intellectual: Osman Hamdi Bey
Guided Exhibition Tour

Guided Tour

February 6, 2025 / 17:30

Pera Museum offers an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of Osman Hamdi Bey as a painter and intellectual of the Tanzimat era in the free guided exhibition tour, organized as part of the exhibition titled Osman Hamdi Bey: The life and art of Osman Hamdi Bey through his works in the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Collection.

Five works of the artist from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Orientalist Painting Collection illustrating various subject matters will be explained along with some biographical details and the cultural and historical context of the times. The significance and role of these works within the collection will also be highlighted.

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Temporary Exhibition

Osman Hamdi Bey

An Ottoman intellectual raised by the Tanzimat Era… An exceptional personality, who made substantial, diversified and lifelong contributions to various fields of culture and arts such as painting, archaeology, museology, and art education...

Osman Hamdi Bey

Rational Medicine in Byzantium

Rational Medicine in Byzantium

Byzantine medical art was grounded in the Greco-Roman medicine transmitted by Hippocrates and Galen and new concepts introduced by such physicians as Oribasios of Pergamon, Aetius of Amida, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina. 

From two portraits of children…

From two portraits of children…

The Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation’s Orientalist Painting Collection includes two children’s portraits that are often featured in exhibitions on the second floor of the Pera Museum. These portraits both date back to the early 20th century, and were made four years apart. One depicts Prince Abdürrahim Efendi, son of Sultan Abdulhamid II, while the figure portrayed on the other is Nazlı, the daughter of Osman Hamdi Bey.

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The Success of an Artist

Pera Museum presents an exhibition of French artist Félix Ziem, one of the most original landscape painters of the 19th century. The exhibition Wanderer on the Sea of Light presents Ziem as an artist who left his mark on 19th century painting and who is mostly known for his paintings of Istanbul and Venice, where the city and the sea are intertwined.