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FAV FITS: HÜRREM'S WHITE HALVET DRESS

Featured → Magnificent Century: Episodes 1-2 Description → Hürrem's white silk halvet dress, with draped slashed sleeves and a matching buttoned bodice piece. Simple in design, the chest line has a unique twisted silk knot, similar to the turquoise gown worn later in the second episode. The gown is worn with a matching set of seed pearl jewellery, including a ring, necklace, earrings and hair piece.

Roxelana by Ivan-Valentyn Zadorizhnyy, 1977

Portrait of Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana, ca. 1504-1558), attributed to the German school of the early 17th century

This copy of Titian's painting from 1542 (with attributes of Saint Catherine of Alexandria), once thought to depict Catherine Cornaro, is in the National Gallery in Prague (oil on panel, 76 x 53.5 cm, inv. O 11666). It comes from the collection of Václav Hořejš (1898-1990), owner of a gallery and auction house in Prague. According to the inscription at top right: Sophij Persaru / Imperatoris / Vxor, it depicts the wife of the Persian shah named Sophia, a common female name in Eastern Orthodox countries ...

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Identification of the sitter by Marcin Latka (Artinpl), 25.02.2023

💌 Details of the famous painting of “Roxelana” by Italian artist, Tiziano Vecelli, circa 1515-1550.

Hürrem Sultan, or “Roxelana”, was the only legitimate wife of the famous Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent — thus, she became the most influential woman in Ottoman history. Of Ruthenian origin, she was known for her bright auburn hair and profound love of and interest in poetry, which captured the sultan’s eyes and saw her rising from the status of concubine to that of founder of an era known as the “Sultanate of women”.

Under the pen name of “Muhibbi”, the sultan composed the following poem for his beloved wife:

(💌) “Throne of my lonely niche, my wealth, my love, my moonlight.

My most sincere friend, my confidant, my very existence, my sultan, my one and only love.

The most beautiful among the beautiful...

My springtime, my merry faced love, my daytime, my sweetheart, laughing leaf...

My plants, my sweet, my rose, the only one who does not distress me in this world...

My Constantinople, my Caraman, the earth of my Anatolia,

My Badakhshan, my Baghdad and Khorasan

My woman of the beautiful hair, my love of the slanted brow, my love of eyes full of mischief...

I’ll sing your praises always