Pera Museum ( Turkish: ''Pera Müzesi'') is an

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in the Tepebaşı quarter of the Beyoğlu (Pera) district in

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, at Meşrutiyet Avenue No. 65 (adjacent to

İstiklal Avenue İstiklal Avenue ( tr, İstiklal Caddesi; en, "Independence Avenue"), historically known as the Grand Avenue of Pera (Ottoman Turkish: ''Cadde-i Kebir''; el, Μεγάλη Οδός του Πέραν, Megali Odos tu Peran; french: Grande Rue de ...

and in close proximity to

Taksim Square Taksim Square ( tr, Taksim Meydanı, ), situated in Beyoğlu in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey, is a major tourist and leisure district famed for its restaurants, shops, and hotels. It is considered the heart of modern Istanbul, with the c ...

.) It has a particular focus on Orientalism in 19th-century art.

History

The Pera Museum was founded by the ''Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation'' in 2005. The museum is located in the historic building of the former ''Bristol Hotel'', which was designed by architect Achille Manoussos and built in 1893. It was renovated between 2003 and 2005 by architect Sinan Genim, who preserved the facade of the building and transformed the interior into a modern and fully equipped museum.

Collection

Pera Museum hosts regular, international loan exhibitions, in addition to holding permanent collections of Orientalist Paintings, Anatolian Weights and Measures, and Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics.

Orientalist Painting Collection

The museum's ''Orientalist Painting Collection'' consists of works by European and Ottoman/Turkish artists, including works by

Osman Hamdi Bey Osman Hamdi Bey (30 December 1842, in Istanbul 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is regarded as th ...

and his most famous painting, '' The Tortoise Trainer''. File:Osman Hamdi Bey Kökenoğlu Riza Efendi.jpg, ''Kökenoğlu Rıza Efendi''. Painting by

, 1871. File:Osman Hamdi Bey - Two Musician Girls - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Two Musician Girls''. Painting by

, 1880. File:Osman Hamdi Bey Girl with Pink Cap.jpg, ''Girl with Pink Cap''. Painting by

, 1904. File:Osman Hamdi Bey - The Tortoise Trainer - Google Art Project.jpg, '' The Tortoise Trainer''. Painting by

, 1906. File:Jean Baptiste Vanmour - Dinner at the Palace in Honour of an Ambassador - Google Art Project.jpg, Foreign ambassadors being received at the

Topkapı Palace The Topkapı Palace ( tr, Topkapı Sarayı; ota, طوپقپو سرايى, ṭopḳapu sarāyı, lit=cannon gate palace), or the Seraglio, is a large museum in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. From the 1460s to the complet ...

in Istanbul during the reign of Sultan Ahmed III. Painting by

Jean-Baptiste van Mour Jean Baptiste Vanmour or Van Mour (9 January 1671 – 22 January 1737)Faroqhi pp443 was a Flemish people, Flemish-France, French painter, remembered for his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era in the Ottoman Emp ...

, 1725. File:Jean Baptiste Vanmour - Sultan Ahmet III Receiving a European Ambassador - Google Art Project.jpg, Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III receives the Dutch ambassador Cornelis Calkoen at the

in 1727. Painting by

, 1727. File:Franz Hermann, Hans Gemminger, Valentin Mueller - A Scene from the Turkish Harem - Google Art Project.jpg, Harem of the

. Painting by Franz Hermann, 1652. File:French School - Enjoying Coffee - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Enjoying Coffee''. Painting by an unknown artist of the French school. File:Jean-Étienne Liotard - A Woman in Turkish Dress - Google Art Project.jpg, ''A Woman in Turkish Dress''. Painting by

Jean-Étienne Liotard Jean-Étienne Liotard (; 22 December 1702 – 12 June 1789) was a Swiss painter, art connoisseur and dealer. He is best known for his portraits in pastel, and for the works from his stay in Turkey. A Huguenot of French origin and citizen of the ...

. File:Fausto Zonaro - Amusement at Göksu - Google Art Project.jpg, '' Enjoyment of Göksu Creek''. Painting by

Fausto Zonaro Fausto Zonaro (18 September 1854 – 19 July 1929) was an Italian painter, best known for his Realist style paintings of life and history of the Ottoman Empire. Life Young life and early art career Fausto Zonaro was born in Masi, a municipali ...

. File:Jules Joseph Lefebvre - Servant - Google Art Project.jpg, '' Housemaid''. Painting by

Jules Joseph Lefebvre Jules Joseph Lefebvre (; 14 March 183624 February 1911) was a French figure painter, educator and theorist. Early life Lefebvre was born in Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, on 14 March 1836. He entered the École nationale supérieure des Bea ...

, 1880. File:Antoine de Favray - Portrait of Charles Gravier Count of Vergennes and French Ambassador, in Turkish Attire - Google Art Project.jpg, '' Portrait of Charles Gravier Count of Vergennes and French Ambassador, in Turkish Attire''. Painting by

Antoine de Favray Chevalier Antoine de Favray (8 September 1706, Bagnolet – 9 February 1798, Malta) was a French painter noted for his portraits of personalities of the Ottoman Empire, as well as paintings of Grand Masters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malt ...

, 18th century. File:Antoine de Favray - Portrait of the Countess of Vergennes in Turkish Attire - Google Art Project.jpg, '' Portrait of the Countess of Vergennes in Turkish Attire''. Painting by

, 18th century. Image:Tristram Ellis 001.jpg, ''Excursion on the

Golden Horn The Golden Horn ( tr, Altın Boynuz or ''Haliç''; grc, Χρυσόκερας, ''Chrysókeras''; la, Sinus Ceratinus) is a major urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey. As a natural estuary that connects with t ...

''. Painting by Tristam (Tristram) James Ellis, 1888. File:Pierre Désiré Guillemet - Portrait of a Lady of the Court Playing the Tambourine - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Lady from the Ottoman Court playing the Def''. Painting by Pierre-Désiré Guillemet, 1875. File:Sultan Abdülmecid - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Sultan

Abdülmecid I Abdulmejid I ( ota, عبد المجيد اول, ʿAbdü'l-Mecîd-i evvel, tr, I. Abdülmecid; 25 April 182325 June 1861) was the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and succeeded his father Mahmud II on 2 July 1839. His reign was notable for the r ...

''. Painting by an unknown artist, 1850s. File:Fausto Zonaro - Prince Abdürrahim Efendi - Google Art Project.jpg, ''A late Ottoman Şehzade (Prince)

Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection

The ''Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection'' comprises over ten thousand pieces and consists of objects dating from prehistory to those used in present-day Anatolia. These comprise the main types of scales and measuring instruments, used for measuring weight, length, and volume in every field, from land measurement to commerce, architecture to jewelry making, shipping to pharmacy. File:Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures 0429.jpg, Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures Weight File:Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures 0430.jpg, Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures Weight detail File:Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures 0431.jpg, Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures Weight File:Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures 0432.jpg, Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures Weight File:Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures 0434.jpg, Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures Scale File:Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures 0435.jpg, Istanbul Pera museum Anatolian weights and measures Weight

Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics Collection

The beginnings of the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation's ''Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics Collection'' date back to 1980s. Today the collection consists of over 800 pieces representing various periods, especially the 18th - 20th centuries. The limited number of pieces on display have been chosen to give a general idea of the collection and the craftsmanship of Kütahya ceramics.

Temporary exhibitions

Having organized joint projects with leading international museums, collections, and foundations including

Tate Britain Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in ...

Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

, St. Petersburg Russian State Museum, JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York School of Visual Arts, and the Maeght Foundation, Pera Museum has introduced Turkish audiences to countless internationally acclaimed artists, among them Alberto Giacometti,

Jean Dubuffet Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as cap ...

, Rembrandt,

Niko Pirosmani Niko Pirosmani ( ka, ნიკო ფიროსმანი ''Nik’o Pirosmani''), simply referred to as Nikala (ნიკალა ''Nik’ala''; 1862–1918), was a Georgian painter who posthumously rose to prominence. Relatively poor for ...

Josef Koudelka Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991), ...

, Joan Miró,

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...

, Marc Chagall,

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

, Fernando Botero, Frida Kahlo,

Diego Rivera Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the ...

, and

Goya Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 174616 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and e ...

. Since its inauguration, Pera Museum collaborates annually with national and international institutions of art and education to hold exhibitions that support young artists.

Other functions

All of the Museum's exhibitions are accompanied by books, catalogues, concerts, audio-visual events, and education programs. Through seasonal programs and events, Pera Film offers visitors and film buffs a wide range of screenings that extend from classics and independent movies to animated films and documentaries, as well as special shows paralleling the temporary exhibitions’ themes.

References and notes

Literature

* Pera Museum (ed.). ''Portraits from the Empire''. Pera Museum Publications, 2005. 155 p. ISBN 975 9123 -02 - 9 * Pera Museum (ed.). ''Young Expansion''. Pera Museum Publications, 2005. 163 p. ISBN 975 9123 -00-2

External links

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