Abstract:

Museo Storico Navale di Venezia is an essential navigation museum that is active in Italy. Unique work of arts inside it brightens the history and culture of maritime. Among these work of arts, there are some examples belong to the Ottoman era. Galleys that are built by the Venetian shipmasters who left their marks in a period in the field of navigation on 16th century, showed its flag in The Mediterranean sea being in the first place, various seas. Ottomans being a leading nation on navigation caused them to have intense relationships with Venice. Martial, political, commercial and cultural relationships are both documented in archival records and exhibited in concrete work of arts in museums of two states. The oldest work of art belongs to the Ottoman in Museo Storico Navale di Venezia, is a flag which is captured by Crusader fleet on 1571 at the Battle of Leponto and Newest work of arts are nameplates of our ships sunk by Italians at World War I. Besides those, caique that had been made by Venice ambassador who is entrusted at Istanbul, represents Ottoman of sea culture. What makes this caique special by both its style and typology is its similarities between it and the examples exhibited in Istanbul Naval Museum. Also, in contrast to the caique stern-boards of the examples that are made in Istanbul, on this caiques stern-boards, name of the craftsmen who constructed it is written.

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