Gentile Bellini
"The Sultan Mehmet II" (1480)
National Gallery, London
"I said it was
Bloch. 'Oh, yes, that boy I
saw here once, who looks so like the
Bellini portrait of Mahomet II. It's an
astonishing likeness; he has the same
arched eyebrows and hooked nose and
promient cheekbones. When he has a little
beard he'll be Mahomet
himself.'" — Swann's Way