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A history of Ottoman architecture / Godfrey Goodwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodwin, Godfrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Turkey.
- Architecture.
- Turkey.
- Architecture, Turkish.
- Islamic architecture--Turkey.
- Islamic architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 511 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1987, c1971.
- Summary:
- Godfrey Goodwin study immediately established itself as the definitive work on the subject when it was first published, and it remains the only comprehensive survey in English and virtually the only account of the last two centuries of Turkish architecture.
- Contents:
- Maps of the Ottoman Empire 8
- Map of Anatolia 12
- 1 Before the capture of Bursa 14
- 2 Bursa - the first mosques 34
- 3 Bursa - the Green Mosque and after 58
- 4 From Edirne to Istanbul 92
- 5 Prelude to the Grand Manner - Beyazit II 142
- 6 Sinan - the rise to greatness 196
- 7 Sinan - the master 240
- 8 The powers decline 284
- 9 Preclude to change 334
- 10 Baroque and after 380
- 11 The Ottoman house 428
- Appendix I The Janissaries 454
- Appendix II The vakfiye and imaret systems 457.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 496-502.
- ISBN:
- 0500274290
- OCLC:
- 15199092
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