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Ottoman Baroque : the architectural refashioning of eighteenth-century Istanbul / Ünver Rüstem.

By: Rüstem, Ünver [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]Description: xi, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691181875Subject(s): Architecture, Ottoman -- Turkey -- Istanbul | Architecture -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 18th century | Architecture, Baroque -- Influence | Istanbul (Turkey) -- Buildings, structures, etcDDC classification: 724/.160949618 LOC classification: NA1370 | .R88 2019
Contents:
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.
Summary: A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its relationship with the West.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 62 - Reading Room
Q4l RÜSTE 32568 Not for loan BOOKS-000000025445

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.