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CORNUCOPIA HIGHLIGHTS
#10 Ingres and Mary
Wortley Montagu I I
Bosphorus yalis: Hekimbasi Yali I I Travel in Turkey: Lcian Shore I I Leighton House
I I Istanbul's Sleymaniye Library I I Consul Barker in Hatay I I
Turkish cookery (cont) Aubergines
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ORIENTALISM |
Cover Story ORDER OF THE
BATH Ingres and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu By John Carswell | 
| When
the intrepid Lady Mary Wortley Montagu travelled with her husband's embassy to Turkey in 1716, she recorded
the minutiae of life on the road and in her 'new world'. . Witty, insatiably curious and remarkably
open-minded, her innocent observations inspired Ingres, a century later, to paint some of the greatest erotic
masterpieces of the Romantic movement. | |
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INTERIORS LEIGHTON'S ORIENT By Caroline Juler Photographs by Fritz
von der Schulenburg | 
| Orientalism was an
obsession with many rich Victorians. But the painter Frederick Leighton went to extraordinary lengths to
create his pink, black, blue and gold domed Arab Hall in London. | |
BOSPHORUS YALIS |
HOUSES OF THE BOSPHORUS WATER'S EDGE By Patricia Daunt Photographs
by Simon Upton | 
| Hekimbasi Salih Efendi was the last Chief Physician to the Ottoman court. He was also a scholar and
reformer. But plants were his passion, and the grounds of his yali were filled with the scent of carnations,
lilies and peonies. The gardens have gone, but the house lives on. | |
TRAVEL |
TRAVEL LYCIAN SHORE By Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring Photographs by Faruk Akbas | 
| ‘There are not so many places left where magic reigns
without interruption,’ wrote Freya Stark in The Lycian Shore, ‘and of all those I know, the coast
of Lycia was the most magical.’ Barnaby Rogerson went with Rose Baring and four-month-old Molly in
search of enchantment.
- The most westerly part of Turkey's
southern coast is backed by towering mountains that tumble headlong right to the shore of the beckoning
Mediterranean. It is one of the most dramatic of coastlines, alternating between sandy beaches and hostile
cliffs that have long been the terror of sailors. Inland, two fertile valleys that have traditionally
supported their inhabitants are honeycombed with the ruins of a unique civilisation. No traveller can escape
the spell woven by the constellations of tombs which look down upon the land from cliffs and hilltops. Little
is known of the culture of the ancient Lycians, the architects of these temples, tombs and sarcophagi, but
there are a few encouraging facts to help the visitor. Isolated by their dramatic landscape (the coast road
only completed its tortuous route some thirty years ago), the Lycians lived as a peaceful confederacy of city
states, governed by the deliberations of a proportionally representative body, a feat the civilised Greeks
never managed.
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- The hearland of the Lycian state
was the valley of the Xanthos River, now known as the Esen Çayi....
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ART |
ART FOUNDATION
OF
LEARNING By Caroline Finkel Photographs
by Simon Upton | 
| Süleyman the Magnificent's city within a city above the Golden Horn
has come to house one of the world's finest collections of books and ancient manuscripts. | |
PEOPLE |
PEOPLE & PLACES CONSUL'S RETREAT By David
Morray | 
| In the early nineteenth century the
redoubtable Englishman John Barker built a country retreat in the province of Hatay, close to the present-day
Syrian border, planting his estate with exotic fruit trees, watching over the British Empire's Indian mail,
and entertaining guests with music on the mechanical organ. David Morray looks back on the golden age of
Suedia Hall | Also on the province of Hatay: Cornucopia 25 |
TURKISH COOKERY |
COOKERY PURPLE REIGN Aubergines Text and photographs by Berrin Torolsan | 
| Elegrant, mysterious, like a plant from another planet, the aubergine is
the sultan of vegetables, despite a reputation for mischief. Its rich, subtle flavour lends itself to a
multitude of melting concoctions. Berrin Torolsan traces the story of this most lustrous fruit and serves up
an irresistible feast. | |
Books reviewed in Cornucopa 10 Reviewed
by Phiilippa Scott: The Lost Treasures of Troy, by
Caroline Moorehead, Schliemann of Troy: Treasures and Deceit, by David Traill, The Gold of Troy (exhibition
catalogue). (buy from
Amazon) Reviewed by Antony Wynn: Songs from the Steppes of Central Asia:
Collected Poems of Makhtumkuli, 18th-century Poet-Hero of Turkmenistan, trans Yusuf Azemoun, versified by
Brian Aldiss (Amazon) Reviewed by Christopher Ferrard: Constantinople: City of the World's
Desire, by Philip Mansel CORNUCOPIA BOOK
CLUB Cornucopia books online Reviewed by John Freely: Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, by John Julius Norwich (Amazon) Reviewed by John Carswell: Turkish Traditional Art Today, by Henry
Glassie; The Turkish Hayat House, by Dogan Kuban
(Amazon) Also reviewed in brief by Phiilippa Scott: The Tribal Eye, by Peter Davies; Kilims: The Complete Guide,
by Alastair Hull and Jose Luczyc-Wyhowska.; Oriental Rugs Vol 4:
Turkish, by K Zipper and C Fritsche; eHagop Kapoudjian:
The First and Greatest Master of the Kumkapi School, by George F Farrow with
Leonard Harrow (Amazon) |
Short features in Cornucopia
10 Interior Design: The Decorist Fair at the Ciragan Palace Restaurant review: Andrew Finkel on princely dining at the Tugra, noisy dining at Armada,and tripe
soup at Apik; David Barchard on Venetian dining in Ankara Design: John Brunton
interviews Murat Günak, Peugot's design guru |
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