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ABOVE: Girl from Chios, 1568 French edition. The Italian flavor of the Chios dresses stems from the contemporary control of the Genoese over the island.
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Girl from Chios, 1585 English edition |
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| Woman from Chios, 1568 French edition;
Argenti claims the purse is an addition compared to the first French plates.
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Woman from Chios, 1585 English edition |
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| Unmaried Greek woman from Galata/Pera. Her dress shows noticeable similarities to Italian styles. Pera was founded as a trading colony by the Genoese | Colored version (German edition) |
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| Married Greek woman from Pera/Galata. | Colored version (German edition). I believe the colorist has mistakenly portraid her as wearing stockings, rather than trousers. |
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| Greek woman from Adrianople. I have seen this picture reproduced in Turkish costuming publications as portraying a Turkish woman. However, the caption as well as the woman's uncovered face while wearing street clothes, indicates a Greek. | Greek peasant woman. |
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| A Cilician woman (Anatolian Greek Orthodox Christian). The Cilician women in Constantinople are specifically mentioned by Nicolay as producing embroidery for sale in the bazaar. The headdress portrayed here bears noticeable similarities to those worn by Anatolian Turkish women. | |
1. The three images below are all from the 1585 English edition of Nicolay's The Navigations, Perigrinations and Voyages Made into Turkey. Nicolay himself made the original engravings, but details were lost & possibly added in subsequent versions.
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| Nicolay reports a Greek gentleman's hat must be black... | and a Greek merchant's turban must be blue. | Greek peasant, playing bagpipes. |
1. Drawing by Gentile Bellini, late 15th Century. Image captured from the British Museum web site.
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2. Images from 16th century English and German editions of Nicolay's The Navigations, Perigrinations and Voyages Made into Turkey. Nicolay himself made the original engravings, but details were lost & possibly added in subsequent versions.
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| Turkish woman dressed and veiled to appear in public, from the 1585 English edition. | The same image, but from the hand colored German
edition (image taken from the Turkish Ministry of Culture website) |
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| Turkish woman and her slave, dressed
and veiled to appear in public and on their way to the baths, from the
1585 English edition. |
The same image, but from the hand colored German edition (image taken from the Turkish Ministry of Culture website) |
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1. (L) Drawing by Gentile Bellini, late 15th Century. Image captured from the British Museum web site. Technicaly, Jannissaries like the man pictured here weren't "Turkish" in the modern ethnic sense; they were originally children of rural, Christian families who were forcibly taken to be converted to Islam and raised in the sultan's palace. (R) Another drawing by Gentile Bellini showing a Turkish man.
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Images from 16th century English edition of Nicolay's The Navigations, Perigrinations and Voyages Made into Turkey. Nicolay himself made the original engravings, but details were lost & possibly added in subsequent versions. While different color Turbans were mandated by law according to one's religion, these engravings suggest there were also identifiable differences in the manner of wrapping them.
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| Arab | Greek: According to Nicolay, their turbans must be 'sky colored'. | Armenian | Jewish: According to Nicolay, their turbans were yellow. On Chios (which was under Genoese control) they instead wore yellow caps. |