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The age of Sinan : architectural culture in the Ottoman Empire / Gülru Necipoğlu ; architectural drawings and photographs of Sinan's works by Arben N. Arapi and Reha Günay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Necipoğlu, Gülru.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sinan, Mimar, 1489 or 1490-1588.
- Sinan.
- Mosques--Turkey--Design and construction--History--16th century.
- Mosques.
- Architecture, Ottoman--Turkey.
- Architecture, Ottoman.
- Islamic architecture--Turkey.
- Islamic architecture.
- History.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 592 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- An historical and sociological tour de force, this book is written--and written very well--with authority, skill, and grace. The scholarship is of the highest order. Gü lru Necipoglu is simply the most technically accomplished, historically minded, and most important historian of Islamic art working today. This book will become the definitive study of Sinan--and of his age in cultural production."--Cornell H. Fleischer, University of Chicago, author of "Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-574) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691123268
- OCLC:
- 60599439
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