Ottoman Turkish Carpets - Exhibition in the Museum of Applied Arts,
Budapest
This interesting exhibition will run until 31 December 2008 in the
Museum of Applied Arts. The exhibition is in memoriam of the Hungarian
carpet researcher Ferenc Batari (1934-2005). The exhibition includes
Anatolian Lotto and Holbein carpets from the 16-17th centuries, Transylvanian
carpets ( Usak), Ladik and Ghiordes prayer rugs, and a few elder 15th
century Anatolian rugs. The carpets on view are - though several
hundreds years old - generally in very good conditions because they have
been used as decorations and wall hangings and not laid on floors. As a
part of the exhibition the carpets are supplemented by funerary portraits from the
Hungarian National Museum and paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts,
Budapest. |
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17th century Lotto rug ( named after the Italian painter Lorenzo Lotto).
Above: funerary portrait - unknown painter |
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17th century Lotto rug. Above: funerary portrait - unknown painter. Right:
Transylvanian rug |
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16th century Lotto rugs |
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Six panel Ladik prayer rug, second half 17th century |
Holbein rug, first quarter 16th century ( named after the German
painter Hans Holbein the Younger) |
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Left: Ghiordes prayer rug Right: Ghiordes or Kula |
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Crivelli rug 15th century ( named after the Venetian painter Carlo Crivelli) |
Memling rug fragment 15th century |
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Transylvanian rug ( Usak first half 17th century) |
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Transylvanian rug 17th century Usak |
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Transylvanian rugs |
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"Bird" rugs |
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| Location and more information: Museum
of Applied Arts, (Iparművészeti Múzeum) Üllői út 33-37,
Budapest, Hungary
Jozan Magazine 28 September 2008 |
