Source: Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, Patronage (1982), pp. 3-8

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A Sultan of Paradox: Mehmed the Conqueror as a Patron of the Arts

Author(s): Julian Raby

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Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, Patronage (1982), pp. 3-8

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• Issue Table of Contents
  • Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, Patronage (1982), pp. 1-80
    • Front Matter [pp.  1 - 1]
    • Preface [p.  2]
    • A Sultan of Paradox: Mehmed the Conqueror as a Patron of the Arts [pp.  3 - 8]
    • Philip IV's Early Italian Commissions [pp.  9 - 14]
    • Gerrit Dou, His Patrons and the Art of Painting [pp.  15 - 23]
    • Patronage and Learning in the Virtuoso Republic: John Talman in Italy, 1709-1712 [pp.  24 - 30]
    • Charles Willson Peale: Painting and Natural History in Eighteenth-Century North America [pp.  31 - 39]
    • A Turk and His Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Paris [pp.  40 - 47]
    • Some Views of Art Buying in New York in the 1870s and 1880s [pp.  48 - 55]
    • The Quango and the Gentlemanly Tradition: British State Intervention in the Visual Arts [pp.  56 - 60]
    • Book Reviews
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      • Indian Summer: A Review of Some Exhibitions Held as Part of the Festival of India [pp.  68 - 70]
      • A Man of Taste's Picturesque [pp.  70 - 76]
    • Back Matter [pp.  77 - 80]