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    The Tortoise Trainer is a famous 1906 painting by Osman Hamdi Bey depicting the artist dressed as a dervish, holding a ney and surrounded by five turtles, symbolizing a stubborn and slow to change society. The painting gives the message that change requires great patience, like that of a dervish, as the turtles eat foliage while the sole light comes from a small window. There are two versions of the painting, with one housed at the Pera Museum and the other in a private collection.

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    The Tortoise Trainer is a famous 1906 painting by Osman Hamdi Bey depicting the artist dressed as a dervish, holding a ney and surrounded by five turtles, symbolizing a stubborn and slow to change society. The painting gives the message that change requires great patience, like that of a dervish, as the turtles eat foliage while the sole light comes from a small window. There are two versions of the painting, with one housed at the Pera Museum and the other in a private collection.

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    The Tortoise Trainer

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    The Tortoise Trainer is a famous 1906 painting by Osman Hamdi Bey depicting the artist dressed as a dervish, holding a ney and surrounded by five turtles, symbolizing a stubborn and slow to change society. The painting gives the message that change requires great patience, like that of a dervish, as the turtles eat foliage while the sole light comes from a small window. There are two versions of the painting, with one housed at the Pera Museum and the other in a private collection.

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    THE TORTOISE TRAINER

    The tortoise trainer is a painting by Osman Hamdi Bey.


    This painting is one of his most famous,creative and interesting works.
    The painting was made in 1906 and during these years,
    Ottoman Empire was in The Tulip Era.
    The painting has two version in 1906 and in 1907.
    This painting first name was Turtle and Man after changed as The Tortoise Trainer.
    It gives this basic social message that change is difficult,requiring much patience,in fact
    the patience of a sufi dervish.Foliage was on the ground and turtle ate foliage.
    Only light source is little window.
    The five turtles in this portrait symbolize a stubborn,resistant and slow changing
    society.
    The tortoise trainer dressed in a red dervish robe and a turban,holding a ney is Osman
    Hamdi.

    First version is at Pera Museum


    Second version is at Belma Simavi Collection

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