The Bashi-Bazouk painting illustrates one of the Ottoman Empire soldiers represented by a model. The painting illustrates a black Turkish man wearing a dress with a turban, and also carrying objects that can be described as a musical instrument and a weapon. The author painted his model taking into consideration every detail of the setting. For example, the exquisite embroidery of the soldier’s sleeves on his dress and also the sheen of the ivory of his musical instruments. Moreover, it can be seeing the stiffness of the illustration of a soldier who has a brutal behavior because as it is described by the history of this type of ottoman soldier they were undisciplined bandits who were irregular soldiers of the Ottoman Army, meaning that they
