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Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years 600-1600 ADIn January 2005, the Royal Academy will present a landmark exhibition exploring the artistic and cultural riches of the Turks from Inner Asia to Istanbul and beyond.
Spanning a period of a thousand years, from 600 to 1600 AD, a rich array of textiles, manuscripts, calligraphy, woodwork, metalwork and ceramics will show the artistic diversity that culminated in the splendours of the Ottoman Empire.
The exhibition brings together over 350 outstanding works, drawn primarily from the celebrated collections of the Topkapý Saray Museum and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art of Istanbul, including numerous works which have never been exhibited outside Turkey.
Taking visitors on an extraordinary journey, this will be the first ever exhibition to explore the development of Turkic cultures, as they forged their way westwards across the eastern borders of Central Asia to the Balkans of Eastern Europe.
Throughout their nomadic migrations each group of Turkic peoples appropriated and assimilated the new cultures they encountered. Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600 will expose and explore the cultural interactions that gave rise to the great richness of artistic expression of this period.
The exhibition presents a wealth of material from a momentous thousand-year period. It introduces the art of the Uyghurs, a nomadic trib
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