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Summmer '19

Pera Learning Workshop Exhibition

August 8 - September 22, 2019

Pera Museum’s Summmer '19 exhibition highlights the creative world of children participating in this year’s summer workshops once again! Inspired by Out of Ink: Interpretations from Chinese Contemporary Art, the outcomes from all workshops are presented as a digital exhibition and a selected wide range are also on view in the workshop gallery space.

Children’s artworks in this year’s Summmer '19 exhibition was produced with various techniques and materials. The exhibition consists of productions made with acrylic paint, foam, organic and recycled objects as well as a wide range of mediums such as stop-motion animation, fantastic short story, photography and illustration.

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The Welcoming of Venetian Balios to Ottoman Lands

The Welcoming of Venetian Balios to Ottoman Lands

The series of paintings depicting the audience ceremonies of European ambassadors hold a unique place among the works of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour of Valenciennes, who lived in İstanbul from 1699 until his death in 1737.

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. 

Postcard Nudes

Postcard Nudes

The various states of viewing nudity entered the Ottoman world on postcards before paintings. These postcards appeared in the 1890s, and became widespread in the 1910s, following the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy, traveling from hand to hand, city to city.