The Funeral of Sultan Murad III of Turkey

Abstract

STUDENTS of oriental art can seldom be oriental philologists and vice versa, but the collaboration of these two types of scholars would solve many problems in oriental art such as the following:

Fifteen years ago Martin¹ reproduced an extremely interesting miniature in two sections (Figs. 1 and 2) which was then at Paris in the collection of M. Victor Goloubew and labeled it thus: “A Ceremony and a Funeral at the Court of Sulaimān the Great. A. D. 1520–1566. In the style of Gentile Bellini. Turkish School. About A. D. 1530.”