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Posts tagged "paintings"

3 Mar 11 The Slave Market in Constantinople

Long before Constantinople became Istanbul, the "Avret (or Aurut) Bazaar" was the female slave market, which is the "Women's Market" in Turkish. It appears to have been within sight of the Nuruosmaniye Mosque, and is a real, identifiable place in modern day Istanbul. I've used some of my collection of slave market images to piece together some details about it, along with some of my own photos taken a couple of years ago when I had a chance to explore the area and written a page with the results [more...]

12 Feb 11 Going to see "Destiny" by Waterhouse

mia uses a detail from this painting on her IC profile and various other sites. The original is in Towneley Hall in Burnley, and we went to see it today. [more...]

27 Jan 10 Jose Jimenez Aranda's slave girl

I've had a copy of Jose Jimenez Aranda's painting of a naked slave girl (sat on a rug surrounded by the feet of buyers) on my site since about 2003. I made a stab at the inscription she bears, and got as far as "Rose" ("Rhodon") and "18 (years)" ("IH"), but I've now got an official version. [more...]

11 May 06 Another night in the stocks

Last month I posted about some modern paintings by Nicolay Bessonov which included stocks being used to hold female captives in prisons (rather than just being used for public humiliation.) Now I've found a couple of strikingly similar harem pictures involving stocks from the 19th century. [more...]