Age of Sinan - paper



Gülru Necipoglu

2007
SINAN - Gülru, Necipoglu.

The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. Contrib. by Arben N. Arapi & Reha Günay. New ed. London 2007. 4to. 592 S. mit 546 (250 farb.) teils ganzseit. Abb., Grundrissen, Karten & Plänen, Bibliographie, Chronologie, Index, brosch..

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Mimar Koca Sinan (c. 1489-1588), the "Great Architect Sinan", was appointed chief royal architect to the Ottoman court by Sultan Suleyman I in 1539. During his fifty-year career he designed and constructed hundreds of buildings including mosques, palaces, harems, chapels, tombs, schools, almshouses, madrassahs, caravanserais, granaries, fountains, aqueducts and hospitals. His distinctive architectural idiom also left its imprint over the terrains of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the Tigris, and he became the most celebrated of all Ottoman architects, particularly renowned for his influence on the cityscape of Istanbul. In this monumental new study, Glru Necipoglu argues that Sinan's rich variety of mosque designs sprang from a process of negotiation between the architect and his patrons, rather than from unrestrained formal experimentation as has been previously described. The author is the first to use published and unpublished primary sources to illuminate the cultural setting in which Sinan's monuments were produced, received and experienced.

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Architektur Architekten Vor 1800  Außereuropäische Kunst Islam Architektur  Außereuropäische Kunst Islam Themen  Künstler Vor 1800