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Issue 10, 1996

Ingres and Lady Mary

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Discover how an ambassador’s writings on harem life inspired the odalisques of Ingres, and how the Orient inspired Frederick Leighton’s interior design in a Victorian artist’s homage to Ottoman style. Patricia Daunt visits the Hekimbaşı’s yalı, Tim Beddow travels with his yurt; we explore the enchanted Lycian coast; and discover treasures in the Süleymaniye Library. Plus feasting on irresistible aubergines

Highlights

  • Water’s Edge

    Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi was the last Chief Physician to the Ottoman court, a scholar and a reformer. But plants were his passion. His gardens have gone, but the house lives on. By Patricia Daunt. Photographs: Simon Upton

  • Order of the bath

    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’. . Remarkably open-minded, her innocent observations inspired Ingres to paint some of the greatest erotic masterpieces of the Romantic movement.

  • Lycian Shore: Mediterranean Travels

    ‘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. Photographs by Faruk Akbas

  • Purple Reign

    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.
    More cookery features

Inside the issue

Cover Story

  1. Order of the Bath How Lady Mary Wortley Montag’s innocent observations inspired Ingres’ erotic masterpiece.
    By John Carswell

Architecture

  1. Travels with my Yurt
    The nomads’ pleasure dome, by Tim Beddow
  2. Water’s Edge
    Patricia Daunt tells the story of the Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi Yalısı, on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus     [extract available online]
  3. Leighton’s Orient
    The Victorian painter’s Arab Hall in London, by Caroline Juler

Art & Design

  1. Foundation of Learning
    The Süleymaniye Library, by Caroline Finkel
  2. Making our Dream Cars Come True
    Murat Günak, Peugeot’s design guru, by John Brunton

Travel

  1. Lycian Shore
    The western Mediterranean coast     [extract available online]
  2. Consul’s Retreat
    Englishman John Barker in Hatay
  3. The Summer Afloat
    The Offshore Racing Calendar

Cookery

  1. Purple Reign
    The elegant, mysterious aubergine

Book Reviews

  1. Treasures and Travesties:
    The Trojan Trail
    Philippa Scott on Caroline Moorehead’s ‘The Lost Treasures of Troy’ and David Traill’s ‘Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit’
  2. Wrapped in a Cloud
    Antony Wynn on ‘Songs of the Steppes of Central Asia’, the collected poems of Makhtumkuli, translated by Yusuf Azemoun and verified by Brain Aldiss
  3. Colourful Tales in Black and White
    Christopher Ferrard on ‘Constantinople: City of the World's Desire’, by Philip Mansel
  4. Three Cheers for Norwich
    John Freely on ‘Byzantium: The Decline and Fall’, by John Julius Norwich
  5. Modern Reverie
    John R O'Connor on James Lovett's
    ‘Turkish Album’
  6. The Human Dimension
    John Carswell on Henry Glassie’s ‘Turkish Traditional Art Today’ and Doğan Kuban’s ‘The Turkish Hayat House’
  7. Fringe Benefits
    Philippa Scott on ‘The Tribal Eye: Antique Kilims of Anatolia’, 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; ‘Hagop Kapoudjian’, by George F Farrow

Regulars

  1. Counterpoint
    Habitat II, Can Istanbul show the world the way? by Andrew Finkel
  2. Connoisseur
    Orientalist and Islamic Art: A Viewers Guide, compiled by Philippa Scott
  3. Diary
    Party Lines, Pipelines, Headlines, Phone Lines.
    By Andrew Finkel
  4. Shopping
    Crockery and Cashmere, Silk and Steel.
    Bridget Freer on Istanbul's Decorist Fair, 1996
  5. Property
    Palazzos and grottoes
  6. Restaurants and Bars
    Princely treasures, by Andrew Finkel
    Doing lunch, by Tom Gattos
    Venice in the East, Ankara's Santini Restaurant, by David Barchard
  7. Diary of Events
    Festivals, fairs, courses and tours in Turkey and round the world
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