{"id":19755,"date":"2021-03-31T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=19755"},"modified":"2021-03-31T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:51:06","slug":"16th-century-sultans-portrait-sold-for-481000-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/19755","title":{"rendered":"16th century sultan&#8217;s portrait sold for $481,000 in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK,<\/p>\n<p>A rare 16th-century portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning Ottoman sultan, fetched a hefty \u00a3350,000 ($481,000) sale price in an auction on Wednesday in London.<\/p>\n<p>The portrait was on offer for collectors in live bidding at famed auction house Sotheby\u2019s starting at \u00a380,000.<\/p>\n<p>The sale price nearly tripled pre-auction estimates, which predicted the portrait could be sold for as high as \u00a3120,000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photoembed\">\n<div class=\"w3-content w3-display-container\">The painting was formerly part of a family collection in France since the 19th century. The painting is a likeness of two 16th century portraits, according to Sotheby\u2019s.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is associated with a portrait attributed to Cristofano Dell&#8217; Altissimo in Florence\u2019s Galleria Degli Uffizi and a smaller portrait of Archduke Ferdinand II exhibited in Vienna\u2019s Kunsthistorisches Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The painting \u201copens a window onto a narrative of artistic exchanges between Venice and the Ottomans in the 1530s,\u201d according to Sotheby\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Suleiman the Magnificent ruled for nearly a half century, from 1520 to 1566.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s auction also included a portrait of Suleiman\u2019s daughter Mihrimah Sultan, by Titian, the 16th century Venetian artist. The painting was sold to a buyer for \u00a360,000.<\/p>\n<p>Ottoman velvet work from the \u201cdistinguished collection of Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount d\u2019Abernon\u201d was also on auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK, A rare 16th-century portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning Ottoman sultan, fetched a hefty \u00a3350,000 ($481,000) sale price in an auction on Wednesday in London. The portrait was on offer for collectors in live bidding at famed auction house Sotheby\u2019s starting at \u00a380,000. The sale price nearly tripled pre-auction estimates, which predicted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19757,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19755\/revisions\/19757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}