The Man of Constantinople

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He ruled unchallenged over the oilfields. Then over the art market. What drives Calouste Gulbenkian? How could this young Armenian, born without a penny in his pocket in a dying Ottoman Empire, become the richest man in the world, a kingmaker and king-breaker, and the greatest collector of his time? The secret of his meteoric rise is what he whispers to his son on his deathbed. This question that pursued him all his life and that he asks one last time: “What is beauty?”

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