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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rüstem, Ünver, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Ottoman--Turkey--Istanbul--History--18th century.

Architecture, Ottoman.

Architecture, Baroque--Turkey--Istanbul--History--18th century.

Architecture, Baroque.

Architecture, Baroque--Influence.

History.

Turkey--Istanbul.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 324 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-312) and index.

ISBN:

9780691181875

069118187X

OCLC:

1032673873