MAKE A MEME View Large Image Mehmed II and Serpent Column.jpg The text of the Hünername written in the 1580s claims that Patriarch Gennadios visited Mehmed II to tell him that if he damaged the Serpent Column the city would be infested with snakes and a miniature was ...
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Keywords: Mehmed II and Serpent Column.jpg The text of the Hünername written in the 1580s claims that Patriarch Gennadios visited Mehmed II to tell him that if he damaged the Serpent Column the city would be infested with snakes and a miniature was painted showing the patriarch giving this warning as the sultan throws his mace at a jaw Miniature from the Hünername Miniature from the Hünername Topkapi Palace Library http //www atli-okculuk com/2012_04_01_archive html Online source s 1580 Unknown 16th-century author Hünername Serpent Column in art Mehmed II PD-old-100
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