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Nasreddin Hocy's fairy tales
Nasreddin Hoca is that for Turks, who is Julian Tuwim for us, that's just that, that he lived a long time ago, in the thirteenth century. He was a comprehensively educated dervish. He is considered a folk philosopher in Turkey, …
Literature
Turkish literature was influenced by Iranian influence, but its origins go back to time, before the Seljuks took Anatolia, that is, the period, when they were in Central Asia. Iranian influences meant the use of Persian and Arabic. Court literature of the Seljuk era had its center …
Islam and art
Turkish culture and art are closely related to Islam, adopted by the Turkmen tribes from the beginning of the 10th century. It was then that they gradually began to arrive in Anatolia, trying to reach its western borders. Muslim doctrine pervaded all areas …
Word icon comes from Greek eikon – "Image”, "image”. Originally in Byzantium, this term was used to describe religious images, both in blackboard painting, and wall. Contemporaries, talking about the icon, they mean first of all the first meaning. Icons have always depicted …
Byzantium
Byzantine art was formed from the Greco-Roman tradition and its combination with oriental elements. It is considered the culmination point of the development of early Christian art, a was born after Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium in 330 r. The greatest artistic activity …
Ancient Greeks and their heirs – Romans
Most of the ancient cities, visited by tourists in Turkey, the Greeks raised up, who are undoubtedly the first builders in the history of mankind, constantly striving to discover the eternal and right rules of form and proportion. Even if we visit cities …
Turkey is a patchwork of many cultures of our world. Here we find traces of the Hittites, examples of Greek and Roman ancient architecture, buildings from the Byzantine period and extremely interesting Turkish monuments. In museums we will admire, among others. beautiful ancient carvings, Byzantine mosaics and magnificent Ottoman specimens …
The age-old rivalry between Glasgow and Edinburgh flared up again at the end of the 19th century., when the Scottish Royal Academy announced, that it will not accept works by West Coast artists. However, this prohibition did not last very long, and for …
Who was Stanisław WyspiańskiStanisław Wyspiański can be called a Renaissance Man - he was a writer, poet, playwrights, graphic artist and painter, he also designed furniture. I came into contact with Stanisław Wyspiański during high school, however, I did not like his work. I speak both …
What Jan Matejko was famous forEvery Pole knows Jan Matejko. He is perhaps the most famous and talented Polish painter. He became famous as a painter of historical scenes such as Battle of Grunwald, Prussian Homage if Batory near Pskov. Jan Matejko is there …