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New book review out of #portraitsofempires in The Art Bulletin! Thanks go to Nebahat Avcıoğlu for the deep engagement!

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Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople, by Robyn Dora Radway
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 107, No. 2, 2025)
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October 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Delightful new review out about my monograph, #PortraitsofEmpires in the Journal of Early Modern History.

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January 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Mood today: sultana holding a fan in the album amicorum of Hans Joachim Prack von Asch from circa 1587–92. She is not messing around... dagger, sassy hand on her hip, and even breaking the fourth wall with that right foot. 😍

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Getty Research Institute, 2013.M.24, fol. 217r, second half of the sixteenth century. The so-called "silhouette paper" has a block for text and eight-pointed stars. She is painted over the text block region, converting it into a room through the introduction of a floor with tiles and shadows that create the illusion of plasticity. Prack was a messenger for the Habsburg resident ambassador to Ottoman Constantinople. The artist here is unknown.
November 27, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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His coat of arms include the same hand that appears in the top left of his professor's portrait now in Tübingen in the Professorengalerie in Tüningen. For more on Prack, his album, and similar decorated papers, see #portraitsofempires
November 17, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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#OTD in #history November 16, 1575, Johann Huetstockher the younger signed the #albumamicorum of the master of the kitchens in the German House in Constantinople, Sebald Plan. Huetstockher was named as a messenger in Stefan Gerlach's travel narrative #portraitsofempires
PLAN: Prag, Knihovna královské kanonie premonstrátu na Strahove, DG IV 25, fol. 43v
November 16, 2024 at 8:07 AM
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#OTD in history, November 15, 1590, johann Schürer von Krumau signed the #albumamicorum of Johann Lucano in the German House in Ottoman Constantinople. Lucano was a member if ambassador Pezzen's retinue. I found out about this album after publishing #portraitsofempires. I am sure there are more!
November 15, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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#OTD December 17, 1574, Paul Knibbe of the Netherlands and Benedict von Ahlefeldt of Holstein signed the album amicorum of Christoph Pfister, secretary to the Habsburg ambassador in Constantinople. Both men were passing through on a pilgrimage. #PortraitsofEmpires
December 17, 2023 at 7:22 AM
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#OTD, November 30, 1591, Habsburg resident ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Friedrich von Kreckwitz signed the #albumamicorum of the messenger Hans Joachim Prack von Asch. See the silhouette paper and coat of arms 😍. Getty Research Institute: 2013.M.24, fol. 39r. #PortraitsofEmpires
November 30, 2023 at 10:34 AM
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Want to know more about one of the most exciting albums discussed in my book #PortraitsofEmpires? Check out my latest article on ABSCHATZ in this fantastic edited volume 😍🤩

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Caspar von Abschatz’s Album Amicorum: Collecting (in) the Ottoman World
Caspar von Abschatz’s Album Amicorum: Collecting (in) the Ottoman World was published in Manuscript Albums and their Cultural Contexts on page 63.
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November 22, 2023 at 10:46 AM