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Lovers in the garden

p.313, MY NAME IS RED:

"Look at this, I said much later, once again unable to refrain from showing them a masterpiece--this one could've belonged in any collection of ghazals, which spoke of love, friendship, spring and happiness. We looked at the trees of springtime blooming in an array of color, the cypresses in a garden reminiscent of Heaven and the elation of the beloveds reclining in that garden as they drank wine and recited poetry; it was as if we in the moldy, dusty and icy Treasury could also smell those spring blossoms and the delicately scented skin of the joyous revelers..."

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Click on an detail to view the entire illustration and read Orhan Pamuk's accompanying text. All images can be found in the book The Topkapi Saray Museum: The Albums and Illustrated Manuscripts. Images reprinted with the written permission of the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul.