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vacy permeates the scene despite the presence of the sultan's easily identified through their garments and placement in the
personal attendants and guards. Süleyman is portrayed as a scene. The two on the left belong to the Has Oda, those op-
youthful monarch benefiting from the experience of the old posite are pages, while the group below represents the impe-
man, whose skin is wrinkled and beard pure white. rial gatekeepers.
The representation of Barbaros Hayreddin is remarkably Vezirs, members of the Has Oda, and two separate corps of
similar to the portrait executed by Nigari; it either was based guards (solaks and peyks) accompany the sultan during his
on Nigari's work or was another life study. The painter also visit to Kasr-i §irin (41d), named after the ruins of an ancient
shows care in depicting the secondary figures, who can be palace thought to have been built by the legendary king Hüs-

41b. Battle of Mohács from the Suleymanname of Arifi transcribed in 1558
(Istanbul, Topkapi Sarayí Müzesi, H. 1517, fols. 219b-220a)

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