There and Back Again: Tracking Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II

In 1480 the sultan of the Ottoman Empire commissioned a portrait from a Venetian painter. The complex, multiply entangled journey of this picture from its production to the present raises both historiographical challenges and opportunities, as well as questions regarding uncertainty, absence, and loss. 

 Elizabeth Rodini is Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome and founder of the Program in Museums and Society at Johns Hopkins University. Her work joins scholarship in the history of art, curatorial practice, and museology. 

Elizabeth Rodini will be  in conversation with by Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library 

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Passages, A lecture and a workshop on early modern globalism by Elizabeth Rodini, is presented by The Global Early Modern Group and The Buffet Institute for Global Affairs