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From the book “The Consolation of Objects“:

While more than half of the attention in painting is paid to the use of color, it is striking that in Turkish dictionaries there are dozens of different terms for horses, depending on the color of their coat. No wonder that when one thinks of traditional Turkish-Ottoman art, horses come to mind rather than sultans. Since the Turks were not interested in portraiture anyway, due to the Islamic ban on images and certain technical difficulties, there were actually more horses depicted than sultans. It thus seems to be no coincidence that, in the tasteful “Turkish Chamber” in Dresden, one finds no depiction of an Ottoman sultan, but rather horses and saddles are exhibited, as well as the tents with which they went to war on horseback.