cold weapons and Orientalism

[sfenoid13]

The painting and the pictures have no relationship whatsoever! I believe the painting is depicting an Ottoman hamam and not a bath in Persia. It is very realistic and possible to find hot redehads or blondes in the Turkish placae because the palace was full of them! they were all being brought from the Balkans and lower Russian republics like Abhazia Tataristan or Moldova or even Crimean. If you look at the mothers of almost 90% of all Ottoman Sultans' mothers you will see they are all Eastern European origin.. anyone interested I can send you a full list Sultans preferred marrying these non-Turkish women to prevent struggles for the throne among the family members..and for the same reason often got their siblings, sons or uncles murdered. If their mom didnt have an extended family to uprise or protest, it was a lot easier to do..

Originally Posted by ariel

Nothing better exemplifies the falsity of the "orientalist" presentation of the reality than the actual photographs. Here are couple of Orientalist pictures of the odalisques in a local harem and the photographs of the harem made personally by shah Nasser-el Din Qajjar.