Melchior Lorck was a Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin. He produced the most thorough visual record of the life and customs of Turkey in the 16th century that is to this day a unique source.
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Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, 1557, 12.3 × 8.8 cm
View over the rooftops of Constantinople, 1555-1559, pen and ink, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
The Süleymaniye Mosque in Constantinople
Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, allegedly seen by Lorck in Constantinople on February 15, 1559, engraving, 2nd state, 40.7 × 28.9 cm.Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Department of Prints and Drawings, inv. no. KKSgb6141
The Map of the Elbe, 1568, watercolour and body colour over black and red chalk and pen and ink, 1.09 × 12.15 m., Hamburg, Staatsarchiv der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
Melchior Lorck, The Janissaries' cook, 1575. Copenhagen, The Royal Library
Melchior Lorck, Atik Ali Pasha mosque, woodcut, 1576. Copenhagen, The Royal LibraryArtists born in the 1520s 6
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Melchior Lorck was a Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin. He produced the most thorough visual record of the life and customs of Turkey in the 16th century that is to this day a unique source. He was also the first Danish artist of whom a substantial biography is reconstructable and a substantial body of artworks is attributable.
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