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Fernando Botero | Amedeo Modigliani

07/08/2011

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The paintings below feature Odalisques. An Odalisque (Turkish: Odalık) was a female slave in an Ottoman seraglio. She was an assistant or apprentice to the concubines and wives, and she might rise in status to become one of them. Most odalisques were part of the Imperial Harem, that is, the household, of the sultan. Source: [...]

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