KashIfSofa.com
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SOFA
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Although our website offers "Turkish art and antiques", these terms are our modern (and somewhat generalized) way of referring to art forms that can be separately identified, or broken down into more specific groupings. These groupings are not just the most obvious ones, such as the categories we have chosen to display on our main page (ceramics, engravings, miniatures), but on a more scholarly level, each of these categories have their own sub classes.
Above all else, it is important to note that traditional Turkish art has been closely related to Islamic art; and naturally so because for a long time, Turkish (Ottoman) influences blanketed a large portion of the "known" world. Indeed, as the Ottoman Empire grew in size and strength, the art culture of its rulers spread with it, affecting lands and peoples from the edges of Europe across to Asia and down to Africa.
But even before the time of the Ottoman Empire, there were Turks (and their art and cultural forms), and so it becomes important to distinguish just what is meant by "Turkish".
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