Picturing History At The Ottoman Court
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Picturing History at the Ottoman Court
Author | : Emine Fetvacı |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780253006783 |
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Traces the simultaneous crafting of political power, the codification of a historical record, and the unfolding of cultural change
Writing History at the Ottoman Court
Author | : H. Erdem Cipa,Emine Fetvaci |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2013-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253008749 |
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Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state structure during this period of rapid imperial expansion. This volume shows how the writing of history achieved these effects by examining the implicit messages conveyed by the texts and illustrations of key manuscripts. It answers such questions as how the Ottomans understood themselves within their court and in relation to non-Ottoman others; how they visualized the ideal ruler; how they defined their culture and place in the world; and what the significance of Islam was in their self-definition.
The Album of the World Emperor
Author | : Emine Fetvacı |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2020-01-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780691194257 |
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The first study of album-making in the Ottoman empire during the seventeenth century, demonstrating the period’s experimentation, eclecticism, and global outlook The 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.
Mapping the Ottomans
Author | : Palmira Brummett |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107090774 |
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This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
Author | : Jane Hathaway |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2018-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107108295 |
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A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.
Picturing the Islamicate World
Author | : Nadja Danilenko |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9789004440098 |
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In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Book of Routes and Realms (10th century C.E.), the world map and twenty regional maps complement the text to a reference book of the territories under Muslim rule. Rather than shaping the Islamicate world according to political or religious concerns, al-Iṣṭakhrī chose a timeless design intended to outlast upheavals. Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Iṣṭakhrī’s strategy seems to have paid off. By investigating the Persian and Ottoman translations and all extant manuscripts, Nadja Danilenko unravels the manuscript tradition of al-Iṣṭakhrī’s work, revealing who took an interest in it and why.
Picturing Russia
Author | : Valerie Ann Kivelson,Joan Neuberger,Associate Professor of History Joan Neuberger |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300119619 |
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What can Russian images and objects—a tsar’s crown, a provincial watercolor album, the Soviet Pioneer Palace—tell us about the Russian people and their culture? This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. Illustrated with more than one hundred diverse and fascinating images, the book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually, understood their visual environment, and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more. Each of the concise and accessible essays in the volume offers a fresh interpretation of Russian cultural history. Putting visuality itself in focus as never before, Picturing Russia adds an entirely new dimension to the study of Russian literature, history, art, and culture. The book enriches our understanding of visual documents and shows the variety of ways they serve as far more than mere illustration.
Global Interests
Author | : Lisa Jardine,Jerry Brotton |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 080143808X |
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In this re-assessment of Renaissance art, Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton examine the ways in which European civilization defined itself between 1450 and 1550.