Yellow Tulip, Seyahatnâme. Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1630s. - Vertical
Evliya Çelebi was a 17th-century Ottoman traveler who wrote a ten-volume travelogue, Seyahatnâme. Yellow Tulip uses AI to reinterpret his description of the Ottoman court's vast gardens.
"Delightful as the garden of Irem, planted with twenty thousand cypresses, planes, weeping-willows, thuyas, pines, and box-trees, and among them many hundred thousands of fruit trees, forming an aviary and tulip-parterre, which to this day may be compared to the garden of the Genii (Jin)."