Wives, Concubines and Daughters of Ottoman Sultans Brought To Life Using AI

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In spite of the teachings of Islam, portraiture was nevertheless popular in the Ottoman Empire. As an example, there are many portraits of sultans and beautiful women from their harems. They were painted by famous and not very famous artists, which can be seen in museums and private collections all over the world. Let's look and imagine how mothers, wives and daughters of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire really looked like in real life. We have successfully brought to life their portraits with the help of artificial intelligence.
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[Blessed.soul]

Portrait of Mahidevran Sultan is false. Mahidevran Sultan was the prettiest woman of Ottoman Empire, as said by historians. She had ivory/pearl like white skin, large green eyes and blonde hair. Her beauty was incomparable. Portrait of hurrem sultan is also fake. She had flaming red hair and deep blue eyes.

[lvileo]

i am turkish and to our historians and historical records, mahidevran sultan was more beautiful than hurrem sultan. so, suleiman didn't fall in love with hurrem because of her beauty. it was her character. hurrem sultan was cheerful woman, she was very intelligent and she was good dancer/musician. and the letters they wrote to each other show that they have a special bond. for suleyman, hurrem was a source of joy. that's why when hurrem died, he banned music in the palace and had the gold items in his room removed.

and nurbanu sultan was very beautiful woman. the first thing to mention when talking about her is her beauty.

besides among the sultanas in the ottoman empire, my favorite is Turhan Sultan. although her name is not as well known as hürrem or kösem, she is a woman who has worked for the state all her life. she ended the rule of kösem sultan and ended the women's reign. if she wanted, she could be like kösem, she had enough power for this, but she put the interests of the state above her own. she is literally the mother of the state.

[ZekoBeatz]

As a Turk I can say that in our society Mahidevran, Mihrimah and Nurbanu are known for their beauty. Handan and Turhan are also known for being beautiful.

[ScarletVoodoo]

I think they all look more glamorous than the paintings, but the essence of each portrait was captured really well here. I follow a few youtubers who do art like this based on historical portraits and these are rather exceptional.

[vvmew]

People need to understand that none of the women from that era were allowed to be seen by anyone outside of harem, yet alone men. So even if they were painted they were just described by servants. No painter has ever actually see a sultan.

You can research this.

Also, that era had a particular style of painting bodies and faces. That’s why most of the sultanas look alike, with small features changed, like hair color.

[Ri-Vi-Va]

This painting of Hurrem Sultan used in this video is painted very late - 18th Century where as she lived during 16th century. Her original picture can be seen in wikipedia. This was also recently auctioned in US. It is said that she was strickingly beautiful.

[cuttostah]

I feel like they are made to look a bit more prettier than they actually were according to modern times.

Edit: why are ya'll mad at this lmao. They clearly didn't look like that with the smokey eye and stuff. I never said they were not beautiful. I said they were modified to look pretty according to today's time. They were pretty back then too, but if they showed the same face maybe we won't find them the most beautiful women because beauty standards have changed jeez.

[adrianelittle]

Mihrimah Sultan, and Turhan Sultan are the only two that actually resemble their portraits. The rest take a lot of let’s say, creative licence.

[vanessamiller]

Mahidevran outlived all of Suleimans children. One can only imagine how depressing that must have been thru her life.

[spaceparrot]

Perhaps the reason why the Ottoman Empire's history is so interesting and cryptic is because how private and secretive they were concerning royalty. Men weren't allowed to look at the sultanas, nobody outside the harem. So the paintings are probably based on the descriptions that servants could have given the painters.

[asiminapateraki]

Kosem Sultan was the most controversial, powerful and famous Sultana of Ottoman empire !!!! She is the reason Blue Mosque was created this is why the serial is Kosem and not Ahmed while the other is called only Suleiman The Magnificent !!! 😎

[yoyo]

Hafsa 0:57
Mihrimah 3:15
Hurrem 2:30
Nurbanu 3:58
Safiye 4:46
Mahfiruz 5:31
Turhan 7:00
soooo beautiful

[allenamores]

Damn. No wonder they called her an enchantress. Hurrem Sultana is a beauty that can indeed topple an empire. Goodness.

[teaholicanonymous]

It is said that Mahidevran and Nurbanu were the ones who were the most beautiful amongst them.

[smitprmr]

I love how the modern technology can bring back people with a pretty close original form.

[graceyadanar]

Nurbanu is always depicted with dark hair in portraits so I wonder why she has light hair in here? Also considering that Hurrem had red hair, I don’t think Mihrimah’s hair would have been that black

[hakimnazir]

Ottoman Sultana birthplace:
1. Sultana Hafsa: Bakhcyhsarai, Crimea
2. Sultana Mahidevran: Albania or Taman Peninsular, Caucasus
3. Sultana Hurrem: Rohathyn, Ukraine
4. Sultana Mihrimah: Istanbul, Turkey
5. Sultana Nurbanu: Paros, Greece
6. Sultana Safiye: Dukagjin Highland, Albania
7. Sultana Mahfiruze: North Caucasus
8. Sultana Kösem: Isle of Tinos, Greece
9. Sultana Turhan: Kyivan Rus, Ukraine

[ridshaq]

Plz make ottoman sultans original faces! Like sultan Suleyman, mustafa, mehmed, selim! We really want to see that! ❤️

[beag.b]

These beautiful women had tough lives, ! Weren't many of them kidnapped from their birth families, taken from their native lands and made into slaves and forced to convert to Islam? I know it was a different time in history, but wow traumatic indeed!

[karmen__]

I read the comments about "beauty" of certain women and I want to say few facts:
1. Someone being beautiful or not is the matter of times. What they saw as beauty then, can for many be not beautiful today. Just a reminder because many people keeps forgetting about it. 😅
2. What is beautiful is a matter of country/regions. So if, for example, Mahidevran was closer to the beauty standard of Ottomans country and Hurrem was more "European beauty" then it's high possibility that historians from Ottomans country would wrote that one is prettier than another. But it can be just a matter of that. We never really can say about facts if it comes to telling about someone's opinion. 😂
3. Paintings - this one's or others - were kinda like photoshop back then. It is not like we truly know how someone's looked like. We know how they wanted to be seen or how the painter boosted their beauty (or ugliness) by trying to fit them a bit more with current beauty standards or showing on the painting things that weren't really fitting in the beauty standards. Anyway it's a really interesting subject if it comes about portraits - especially if it comes to people with high social status and currently ruling ones. 🤗
So basically us talking about who was more beautiful is just really silly because we really can't fully say how those people were looking and it's just so subjective opinion. 🤪