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This is a detail of a large 16th century carpet, of traditional Anatolian design. It hangs in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. It's a "Lotto" style carpet -- not, as you might think, because you'd have to win the lottery to buy it, but because an Italian artist, Lorenzo Lotto, included a rug of this design in one of his paintings. Scholars use these paintings to help date the carpets. There are "Holbein" style carpets as well. Click below to see more |
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