Author: Topkapı Sarayı MüzesiPublisher:
ISBN: 9789752563377
Category : Sultans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Portrait Album of the Ottoman Sultans
Author: Topkapı Sarayı MüzesiPublisher:
ISBN: 9789752563377
Category : Sultans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
19th century album of Ottoman sultans' portraits
Author: Günsel RendaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789757844006
Category : Sultans
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Imperial self-portrait
Author: Carney E. GavinThe Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 2, The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453–1603
Author: Suraiya N. FaroqhiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316175545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Turkey examines the period from the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 to the accession of Ahmed I in 1603. During this period, the Ottoman Empire moved into a new phase of expansion, emerging in the sixteenth century as a dominant political player on the world scene. With territory stretching around the Mediterranean from the Adriatic Sea to Morocco, and from the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea, the Ottomans reached the apogee of their military might in a period seen by many later Ottomans, and historians, as a golden age in which the state was strong, the sultan's might unquestionable, and intellectual life and the arts flourishing. In this volume, leading scholars assess the considerable expansion of Ottoman power and effervescence of the Ottoman intellectual and cultural world. They also investigate the challenges that faced the Ottoman state, particularly in the later period, as the empire experienced economic crises, revolts and drawn-out wars.
Photography's Orientalism
Author: Ali BehdadPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606062670
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology and an art form. Likewise, photography was instrumental in cultivating and maintaining Europe’s distinctively Orientalist vision of the Middle East. As new advances enhanced the versatility of the medium, nineteenth-century photographers were able to mass-produce images to incite and satisfy the demands of the region’s burgeoning tourist industry and the appetites of armchair travelers in Europe. In this way, the evolution of modern photography fueled an interest in visual contact with the rest of the world. Photography’s Orientalism offers the first in-depth cultural study of the works of European and non- European photographers active in the Middle East and India, focusing on the relationship between photographic, literary, and historical representations of this region and beyond. The essays explore the relationship between art and politics by considering the connection between the European presence there and aesthetic representations produced by traveling and resident photographers, thereby contributing to how the history of photography is understood.
Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II
Author: Elizabeth RodiniPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838604847
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In 1479, the Venetian painter Gentile Bellini arrived at the Ottoman court in Istanbul, where he produced his celebrated portrait of Sultan Mehmed II. An important moment of cultural diplomacy, this was the first of many intriguing episodes in the picture's history. Elizabeth Rodini traces Gentile's portrait from Mehmed's court to the Venetian lagoon, from the railway stations of war-torn Europe to the walls of London's National Gallery, exploring its life as a painting and its afterlife as a famous, often puzzling image. Rediscovered by the archaeologist Austen Henry Layard at the height of Orientalist outlooks in Britain, the picture was also the subject of a lawsuit over what defines a “portrait”; it was claimed by Italians seeking to hold onto national patrimony around 1900; and it starred in a solo exhibition in Istanbul in 1999. Rodini's focused inquiry also ranges broadly, considering the nature of historical evidence, the shifting status of authenticity and verisimilitude, and the contemporary political resonance of Old Master paintings. Told as an object biography and imagined as an exploration of art historical methodologies, this book situates Gentile's portrait in evolving dialogues between East and West, uncovering the many and varied ways that objects construct meaning.
Imperial Self-portrait
Author: Carney E. S. GavinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Imperial Self-portrait
Author: Carney E. S. GavinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Imperial Self-portrait
Author: Carney E.S. GavinCamera Ottomana
Author: Zeynep ÇelikPublisher: Koc University Press
ISBN: 9786055250461
Category : Istanbul (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
"This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Camera Ottomana: Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914', at Kooc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, April 21-August 19th, 2015"-- Page 3.