This book examines how buildings and construction sites reflect shifting attitudes towards architectural practice, style, and representation in the fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire. The book demonstrates how workers from Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, Iran and Central Asia participated in such construction projects.
This book examines how buildings and construction sites reflect shifting attitudes towards architectural practice, style, and representation in the fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire. The book demonstrates how workers from Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, Iran and Central Asia participated in such construction projects.
Patricia Blessing is Assistant Professor of Art History at Princeton University. A scholar of Islamic architecture in the eastern Mediterranean, Iberian Peninsula, and Iran, she is the author of Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest.
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Introduction: Material politics of architecture in a fluid empire 1. Imperial and local horizons: Looking east and west 2. Immersive space: Empire building and the ottoman frontier 3. Under the influence: Creating cosmopolitan architectures 4. Building paradise: Afterlife and dynastic politics 5. An ottoman aesthetic consolidation C. 1500 Conclusion Bibliography.
Introduction: Material politics of architecture in a fluid empire 1. Imperial and local horizons: Looking east and west 2. Immersive space: Empire building and the ottoman frontier 3. Under the influence: Creating cosmopolitan architectures 4. Building paradise: Afterlife and dynastic politics 5. An ottoman aesthetic consolidation C. 1500 Conclusion Bibliography.
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