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Architecture and material politics in the fifteenth-century Ottoman empire / Patricia Blessing, Princeton University.

By: Blessing, Patricia [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022Description: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781316517604Subject(s): Architecture, Ottoman -- History -- To 1500 | Architecture and society -- Turkey -- History -- To 1500 | ARCHITECTURE / GeneralAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Architecture and material politics in the fifteenth-century Ottoman empireDDC classification: 720.956/09024 LOC classification: NA1365 | .B59 2022Other classification: ARC000000
Contents:
Imperial and local horizons : looking east and west -- Immersive space : empire building and the Ottoman frontier -- Under the influence : creating cosmopolitan architectures -- Building paradise : afterlife and dynastic politics -- An Ottoman aesthetic : consolidation circa 1500.
Summary: "In this book, Patricia Blessing explores the emergence of Ottoman architecture in the fifteenth century and its connection with broader geographical contexts. Analyzing how transregional exchange shaped building practices, she examines how workers from Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and Iran and Central Asia participated in key construction projects. She also demonstrates how drawn, scalable models on paper served as templates for architectural decorations and supplemented collaborations that involved the mobility of workers. Blessing reveals how the creation of centralized workshops led to the emergence of a clearly defined imperial Ottoman style by 1500, when the flexibility and experimentation of the preceding century was leveled. Her book radically transforms our understanding of Ottoman architecture by exposing the diverse and fluid nature of its formative period. It also provides the reader with an understanding of the design, planning, and construction processes of a major empire of the Islamic world. Patricia Blessing is an 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Imperial and local horizons : looking east and west -- Immersive space : empire building and the Ottoman frontier -- Under the influence : creating cosmopolitan architectures -- Building paradise : afterlife and dynastic politics -- An Ottoman aesthetic : consolidation circa 1500.

"In this book, Patricia Blessing explores the emergence of Ottoman architecture in the fifteenth century and its connection with broader geographical contexts. Analyzing how transregional exchange shaped building practices, she examines how workers from Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and Iran and Central Asia participated in key construction projects. She also demonstrates how drawn, scalable models on paper served as templates for architectural decorations and supplemented collaborations that involved the mobility of workers. Blessing reveals how the creation of centralized workshops led to the emergence of a clearly defined imperial Ottoman style by 1500, when the flexibility and experimentation of the preceding century was leveled. Her book radically transforms our understanding of Ottoman architecture by exposing the diverse and fluid nature of its formative period. It also provides the reader with an understanding of the design, planning, and construction processes of a major empire of the Islamic world. Patricia Blessing is an 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"-- Provided by publisher.