Melchior Lorck
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Melchior Lorck was a Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin. He produced the most thorough visual record of the life and customs of Turkey in the 16th century that is
Self portrait 1575
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, 1557, 12.3 × 8.8 cm
View over the rooftops of Constantinople, 1555-1559, pen and ink, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
The Süleymaniye Mosque in Constantinople
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
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Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, sometimes Augier Ghislain de Busbecq, was a 16th-century Flemish writer, herbalist and diplomat in the employ of three generations of Austrian monarchs. He served as ambassa
Melchior Lorck
…during most of this war, which was part of the larger Ottoman–Habsburg wars. The embassy, whose efforts finally led to a cease-fire in 1562, was led by Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, and is renowned for the records of it found in the 'Turkish Letters' by Busbecq, published in 1581–1588 in Antwerp. Of the three and a half years that…
Cover page of Turcicae epistolae, 1595 ed.
Oghier Busbeck SIL14 B9 13a