An Ottoman Intellectual: Osman Hamdi Bey
Guided Exhibition Tour

Guided Tour

February 20, 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

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