At the Mosque Door
1879 · Oil on canvas
H. 23 5/8 in. (60 cm)
W. 16 9/16 in. (42 cm)
D. 5/8 in. (1.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Osman Hamdi Bey
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Osman Hamdi Bey was an Ottoman Turkish administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was the Ottoman Empire's first modern archaeologist, and is regarded as the founding father of both archaeology and the museum curator's professions in Turkey. He was the founder of Istanbul Archaeology Museums and of the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts known today as the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He was also the first mayor of Kadıköy.
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