The Album of the World Emperor : Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album-Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul / Emine Fetvacı.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fetvacı, Emine, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Collectors and collecting.

Art.

Art--Collectors and collecting--Turkey.

Turkey--Istanbul.

Turkey.

Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Kütüphane--Manuscript--Bagdat 408.

Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first study of album-making in the Ottoman empire during the seventeenth century, demonstrating the period's experimentation, eclecticism, and global outlookThe Album of the World Emperor examines an extraordinary piece of art: an album of paintings, drawings, calligraphy, and European prints compiled for the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603-17) by his courtier Kalender Paşa (d. 1616). In this detailed study of one of the most important works of seventeenth-century Ottoman art, Emine Fetvacı uses the album to explore questions of style, iconography, foreign inspiration, and the very meaning of the visual arts in the Islamic world.The album's thirty-two folios feature artworks that range from intricate paper cutouts to the earliest examples of Islamic genre painting, and contents as eclectic as Persian and Persian-influenced calligraphy, studies of men and women of different ethnicities and backgrounds, depictions of popular entertainment and urban life, and European prints depicting Christ on the cross that in turn served as models for apocalyptic Ottoman paintings. Through the album, Fetvacı sheds light on imperial ideals as well as relationships between court life and popular culture, and shows that the boundaries between Ottoman art and the art of Iran and Western Europe were much more porous than has been assumed. Rather than perpetuating the established Ottoman idiom of the sixteenth century, the album shows that this was a time of openness to new models, outside sources, and fresh forms of expression.Beautifully illustrated and featuring all the folios of the original seventy-page album, The Album of the World Emperor revives a neglected yet significant artwork to demonstrate the distinctive aesthetic innovations of the Ottoman court.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations

Introduction. 1. The Album of the World Emperor

Chapter One. Sultan Ahmed I

Chapter Two. Sultan Ahmed's Artistic Patronage

Chapter Three. Kalender and the Album

Chapter Four. Calligraphy in the Album

Chapter Five. The City and the World in the Album

Chapter Six. European Prints from the Album

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Photo Credits

Plates

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780691194257

0691194254

OCLC:

1143809723