{"product_id":"gentile-bellinis-portrait-of-sultan-elizabeth-rodini-9781838604813","title":"Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image","description":"This book traces the history of the famous portrait of the Turkish Sultan Mehmed II by Gentile Bellini, which has appeared, Zelig-like, at critical historical moments from its production in Istanbul to its current home in the National Gallery in London and the modern Turkish imagination. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStructured as the biography of an object, Elizabeth Rodini explores key moments in the picture's history, such as when the famed Orientalist and excavator of ancient Nineveh, Austen Henry Layard, recovered the picture and gave it pride of place in his Venetian palace, and how in 1999, the picture returned to Istanbul, in a solo show that opened just days before Turkey made its first petition to join the European Union. In so doing she explores the meanings that were imposed on it in different times and places.\u003cbr\u003eThe book's methodological questions range broadly, from the nature of historical evidence and interpretations of portraiture, to the shifting status of authenticity and verisimilitude in different cultural contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is at once the history of a picture's place in evolving dialogues between East and West, an investigation-through-practice of historical and art historical methodologies, and a meditation on the many and varied ways that objects construct meanings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Rodini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1838604812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781838604813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Elizabeth Rodini","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44077551419647,"sku":"9781838604813","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_63cb8b1c-1572-4059-8826-3d453fb802fe.jpg?v=1685470575","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gentile-bellinis-portrait-of-sultan-elizabeth-rodini-9781838604813","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}