Ottoman Baroque: the architectural refashioning of eighteenth-century Istanbul 2018013416, 9780691181875, 9780691190549, 069118187X

A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its place in the world With its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adap

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English Pages xi, 324 pages: illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color; 29 cm Year 2019

Ottoman Baroque: the architectural refashioning of eighteenth-century Istanbul
2018013416, 9780691181875, 9780691190549, 069118187X

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Table of 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.

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