Did any aspects of the renaissance reach the Ottoman empire?

by Crisisofchafe

Given their closeness to Italy it seemed that there would be some interaction (especially with Venice since they traded).

kieslowskifan

Genitle Bellini was a Venetian artist who was apart of a delegation to the court of Mehmed II in 1479. There was a 2005-6 exhibition of his art at the Gardner Museum http://www.gardnermuseum.org/collection/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/gentile_bellini_and_the_east?filter=exhibitions:3318

Columbia's Academic Commons has a recent dissertation by Nassim Ellie Rossi about the evolution of Renaissance depictions of the Ottoman Sultan http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac%3A161108