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Tag Archives: John Mole
no naughty bits
The life of a eunuch. Its from a bygone era, but one not form a so-distant past. In Ottoman Turkey, the eunuch, both white and black enjoyed a certain status of the social scale, and those scales seemed to be … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Evliya Effendi, George Antoine Rochegrosse, Jean Claude Flechet, John Mole, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Ottaviano Bon, The Black Eunuchs Ottoman, The White Eunuchs Ottoman, Thomas Dallam
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caucasian cream of the crop
In selecting a concubine, a Sultan held a regular weekly levee at which the virgins of the harem were brought in for his inspection; he dropped a hankerchief at the feet of the one who pleased him most, indicating she … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alan Aldiss, Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa, Evliya Effendi, Georges Jules Victor Clairin, Grand Seraglio, Jean Claude Flechet, John Mole, Khurrem roxelana, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Baudier, Ottaviano Bon, Paul Alexandre Alfred Leroy, Roxelana and Suleiman, Sultan Ibrahim I, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, Thomas Dallam
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peeping thomas and the organ grinding sultan
The comings and goings in the Grand Seraglio would make a Dostoevsky novel look like a child’s short story. No, call this Persian Goth mixed with a surreal world that was so over the top so as to seem like … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Gentile Bellini, Jean Claude Flechet, Jean Leon Gerome, John Mole, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III, Queen Elizabeth Ottoman Empire, Thomas Dallam, William Harborne
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