Rüstem, Ünver,

Ottoman Baroque : the architectural refashioning of eighteenth-century Istanbul / Ünver Rüstem. - xi, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2013, under the title: Architecture for a new age : imperial Ottoman mosques in eighteenth-century Istanbul.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Setting the scene : the return to Istanbul -- Pleasing times and their "pleasing new style" : Mahmud I and the emergence of the Ottoman Baroque -- A tradition reborn : the Nuruosmaniye Mosque and its global audiences -- The old, the new, and the in-between : stylistic consciousness and the establishment of tradition -- At the sultan's threshold : the architecture of engagement as new imperial paradigm -- Conclusion.

A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its relationship with the West.

9780691181875

2018013416


Architecture, Ottoman--Turkey--Istanbul.
Architecture--History--Turkey--Istanbul--18th century.
Architecture, Baroque--Influence.


Istanbul (Turkey)--Buildings, structures, etc.

NA1370 / .R88 2019

724/.160949618