Join Talitha Maria G. Schepers, curator of the exhibition Imagine Me and You, for a talk on a large-scale print of Sultan Süleyman (r. 1520–1566) wearing an elaborately decorated helmet-crown. Larger than a papal tiara, the helmet-crown was a symbol of power and legitimacy. Schepers will share how this now-lost object figures into a tale of early 16th-century Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy. The print is on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

This tour is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450–1750 (May 18–August 18, 2024).

Led by:
Talitha Maria G. Schepers, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Division of European and American Art, and exhibition curator