Fausto Zonaro
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Fausto Zonaro was an Italian painter, best known for his realist style paintings of life and history of the Ottoman Empire.
Self-portrait (1908)
Fausto Zonaro: Il reggimento imperiale di Ertugrul sul ponte di Galata (The Imperial Regiment of Ertugrul on the Galata Bridge)
On the Göksu Deresi (showing Zonaro's wife Elisabetta)
Fausto Zonaro: Mehmed II and the Ottoman Army approaching Constantinople, transporting a giant cannon.
Fall of Constantinople
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Constantinople, the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by the Ottoman Empire on 29 May 1453 as part of the culmination of a 53-day siege which had begun on 6 April.
Fausto Zonaro
…Daughter of the English Ambassador Riding in a Palanquin) and the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. Türkisches Mädchen 10th of Muharram Mehmed II at the Siege of Constantinopole The Attack (1896) The Daughter of the English Ambassador Riding in a Palanquin Woman Playing a String Instrument Fishermen Bringing in the Catch (1891…
The Fall of Constantinople on a mural at the Moldovița Monastery, painted in 1537
Restored walls of Constantinople
The chain that closed off the entrance to the Golden Horn in 1453, now on display in the İstanbul Archaeology Museums