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Fatih Sultan Mehmed

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An old portrait of Fatih Sultan Mehmed of Ottoman Empire [as known Mehmed II "the Conqueror"] painted by Gentile BELLINI of Venice in 1480.
Original oil painting can be seen at National Gallery, London.

The three crowns on left and right side of the picture symbolizes the East and Western Roman Empires. His face was pictured as facing to west on the portrait. And that means the conqueror of the East, now ready to conquer the West..
(thanks to thedharmagirl who reminded me this)

Edited in PS7, texturized and levelled.
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zarothaa's avatar
He had a very powerful ambition, to reconquer the Roman Empire, and crown himself Ceaser, I wonder what an Islamic Rome would be and look like.