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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rüstem, Ünver
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton :
Publication Dates: [2019]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its relationship with the West.
Carrier Form: xi, 324 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-312) and index.
ISBN: 9780691181875 (hardback) :
069118187X (hardback)
Index Number: NA1370
CLC: TU-863.74
TU-093.74
Call Number: TU-093.74/R971
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.