The jewellery used in Ottoman art in 19th century

With the effect of west, luxurious life and appearance were masters in Ottoman palace life in 19th century. In this period Ottoman community and the women living in palace included many jewellery in their life. With the effect of this gorgeous period, even functional jewelleries turned into shining jewelleries. The jewelleries which entered in Ottoman life with the effect of west and these jewelleries represented in drawings, near the mark, often appears. The minature artists dealing out in palace and foreign artists in Ottoman territory gave the best examples of those drawings. In this period, forign artists painted pictures by all accounts from the palace and with their lively imagination power. They drawed their pictures adding Ottoman magic to their consuetudinary perspective,light, shadow and figure pictures. Turkish artists? drawings appropriate to western understanding were postponed to a later time and those courses were specified to technical drawing in military high schools. Therefore, the number of dravings of foreign artists are much more than Turkish artists in 19th century.The history of jewellery goes to the beginning of humanity history. The jewellery has a great importance to get information from the social and cultural developments in this process.Customs transform the all the cultural remains, habituations, information, ethics and all of the attitudes to new generations. The traditional proceed from adopting all of those in principle. The clothing style and jewelleries of a nation embodies cultural, social and economic properties and ever so much informationof that period.In this research, we analysed the examples of drawings from the beginning of Ottoman westernization process to 20th century by the jewelleries on the pictures of Ottoman artists in westernization period of Ottomans. The presence of foreign artists who formed the cultural and art ambience of Ottomans and often visited here are included in the reseach extend. Like Turkish artists foreign artists, minority group and Laventens are seen in the component of those who formed Ottoman art. In other words, we emphasize that not only artists living in Ottoman territory also Western artists who reflected the life in their paintings have an important place in the concept of `Ottoman art of drawing? which forms the main outline of the theisis ` Jewellery used in Ottoman Art in 19th Century?