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Summary

(ostensibly) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCezzinzade_Ali_Pasha" class="extiw" title="w:Müezzinzade Ali Pasha">Müezzinzade Ali Pasha</a>, the Turkish commander at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto" class="extiw" title="w:Battle of Lepanto">Battle of Lepanto</a>. Anonymous German broadsheet, c. 1571. Woodcut with stencil and hand colouring on laid paper with letterpress.

"Müezzinzade Ali Pasha is shown full length, wearing a kaftan of costly woven, figured silks. His exotic clothes, turban and long feathery headdress denote his high rank. Although he is shown alive, in the background is a detail of his head on the end of a pole. Behind Ali Pasha is the Turkish (Ottoman) flagship on which he was wounded and subsequently beheaded."

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current11:42, 13 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 11:42, 13 January 2017926 × 1,178 (1.16 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<p>(ostensibly) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCezzinzade_Ali_Pasha" class="extiw" title="w:Müezzinzade Ali Pasha">Müezzinzade Ali Pasha</a>, the Turkish commander at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto" class="extiw" title="w:Battle of Lepanto">Battle of Lepanto</a>. Anonymous German broadsheet, c. 1571. Woodcut with stencil and hand colouring on laid paper with letterpress. </p> <p>"Müezzinzade Ali Pasha is shown full length, wearing a kaftan of costly woven, figured silks. His exotic clothes, turban and long feathery headdress denote his high rank. Although he is shown alive, in the background is a detail of his head on the end of a pole. Behind Ali Pasha is the Turkish (Ottoman) flagship on which he was wounded and subsequently beheaded." </p>
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