Main entry:

Necipoğlu, Gülru.

Title & Author:

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.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005.

Description:

592 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-574) and index.
Introduction: Contextualizing Sinan -- pt. I. Architectural patronage in the Classical Period. Imperial territory, social hierarchy, and identity ; The legal apparatus and memory ; Culture of architecture and decorum -- pt. II. The chief architect as an individual and institution. Portrait on the divine maestro ; Institutional frameworks of architectural practice -- pt. III. Interpreting mosques and mosque complexes attributed to Sinan. Sultans, princes and vassals ; Queens: wives and mothers of Sultans ; Princesses and their husbands ; Grand Viziers ; Viziers ; Grand admirals ; Provincial governors and administrators ; Officers of the Imperial Council and other dignitaries ; Aghas and attendants of the Inner Imperial Palace ; Merchants and tradesmen -- Epilogue: Sinan's legacy -- Appendices.

Summary:

During his tenure as Chief Royal Architect (1539-1588) in the "Golden Age" of the Ottoman Empire, Sinan designed hundreds of structures that helped create the renowned urban image of Istanbul, particularly mosques with seemingly weightless, light-filled centralized domes that have been compared with developments in Renaissance Italy. His distinctive architectural idiom left its imprint over a vast empire extending from the Danube to the Tigris, and he became the most celebrated of all Ottoman architects. In this lavishly illustrated, major new assessment of Sinan's oeuvre, Gulru Necipoglu challenges standard views of Sinan as a "Turkish Michelangelo" driven solely by an insatiable urge for artistic experimentation. Her innovative analysis shows that Sinan's rich variety of mosque designs sprang from a process of negotiation between the architect and his elite patrons, both men and women. Defined though they were by social and territorial hierarchies and associated notions of identity, memory, and decorum, Sinan's mosques simultaneously shaped these conceptions. The Age of Sinan draws on a wealth of primary sources to reveal the chief architect's monuments as bearers of previously unrecognized dimensions of meaning. A sophisticated study of the cultural and social history of Ottoman architecture, interpreting the oeuvre of a seminal figure in the early modern eastern Mediterranean world, it is must reading for scholars and students of art history and other fields with an interest in the Ottoman Empire.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0691123268
9780691123264

Subject:

Sinan, Mimar, 1489 or 1490-1588.
Sinan, Mimar, 1489 ou 1490-1588.
Sinan 1489-1588
Sinan, Mimar, 1490-1588 Criticism and interpretation.
Sinan.
Mosques Turkey Design and construction History 16th century.
Architecture, Ottoman Turkey.
Islamic architecture Turkey.
Mosquées Turquie Conception et construction Histoire 16e siècle.
Architecture ottomane Turquie.
Architecture islamique Turquie.
Architecture, Ottoman
Islamic architecture
Mosques Design and construction
Islamische Architektur
Architektur
Turkey
Osmanisches Reich

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Arapi, Arben, illustrator, photographer.
Günay, Reha, illustrator, photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 248555
Call No.: NA44.S615.9 N4 2005
Status: Available