Aside from being one of the principal images of the Ottoman culture, Istanbul as an object of desire acts as an intermediary to conceive a visual language where imagination and reality, impression and fiction interweave. Focusing on murals, an important pillar of the art of painting during Ottoman modernization, Tarkan Okçuoğlu’s book explores the stylistic elements, discourses and formal variations with which Istanbul was depicted.

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The peer-reviewed articles of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2 (2020) include works that approach Istanbul from the perspectives of history of medicine and pandemics, architectural history and conservation, historiography and history of science. Cabinet, devoted to documents from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Collections, analyzes a paper icon with the themes of Last Judgment and the Second Coming. Meclis includes two thematic dossiers: the first consists of selected papers from the 2014 symposium organized at the Pera Museum, Imagining the City; and the second deals with experiencing Hagia Sophia in the past, and the diverse encounters with it.

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Online Conference
Echos of an Empire

Online Talk
Provincial Composers Making Music in Ottoman Istanbul

Digital Exhibition
Memories of Humankind