The Historian · Zeynep · Istanbul
Pera Museum
Its Orientalist canvases show how the West imagined us — and one Ottoman painter who answered back. That argument is the history.
A private museum in a 19th-century Pera hotel, strong on Orientalist painting and Anatolian material culture.
— Zeynep, The Historian
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