After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman empire became a source of inspiration for Western painters and thinkers. But the Ottomans were also interested in what we were doing, which led to cross-fertilisation. The Empire of the Sultan exhibition at Bozar has recreated this long-ago moment of exchange between the two cultures.
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