EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq, Melchior Lorck, Saddam Hussein
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As the ottoman empire declines, the european powers (france, england, They move to colonize africa and the middle east. With orientalism an academic counterpoint to colonialism . The painting is making a case for colonialism. This kind of argument has been used to legitimate occupations in the middle east, Far east (chinese and opium), down to the recent present (demonization of. It functions as a kind of ideology . Lorck managed to move around and keep on working in locations as diverse as. Constantinople and antwerp, hamburg and vienna, and rome and copenhagen. During the years 1555-1559, melchior lorck served as a member of the imperial embassy representing the interests of the holy roman empire at the court of sultan. From turkey, lorck brought back to western europe a large collection of studies of turkish, byzantine and roman buildings and monuments and, equally amazing, studies of the turkish people themselves.
