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Mimar Koca Sinan (1489-1588), the 'Great Architect Sinan', was appointed chief royal architect to the Ottoman court by Sultan Suleyman I in 1538. During his 50-year career Sinan designed and constructed hundreds of buildings including mosques, palaces, harems, chapels, tombs, schools, almshouses, madrassahs, caravan serais, granaries, fountains, aqueducts and hospitals. His distinctive architectural idiom 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.Sinan's most influential buildings were his mosques, where his inventive experimention with light-filled centralized domes, often compared with parallel developments in Renaissance Italy, produced spaces in which the central dome appeared weightless and the interior surfaces bathed in light.
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"An historical and sociological tour de force, this book is written--and written very well--with authority, skill, and grace. The scholarship is of the highest order. Gülru Necipoglu is simply the most technically accomplished, historically minded, and most important historian of Islamic art working today. This book will become the definitive study of Sinan--and of his age in cultural production."--Cornell H. Fleischer, University of Chicago, author of Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600)
Gulru Necipoglu is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She is the editor of Muqarnas: An Annual of Islamic Visual Culture, and author of Architecture, Ceremonial and Power (1991) and The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (1995).
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- PublisherReaktion Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1861892446
- ISBN 13 9781861892447
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 28.5 by 23.5cm., 592pp., 546 illustrations, 250 in colour. Mimar Koca Sinan (1489 1588), the most celebrated of all Ottoman Empire architects, is particularly renowned for his contributions to the cityscape of Istanbul. During his fifty-year career he designed hundreds of buildings, and his distinctive architectural idiom left its imprint on the terrain of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the Tigris. Sinan's mosques are considered among his best work, and with their light-filled centralized domes, remain a testament to his inventive spirit and passion for experimentation. In this major study of Sinan's etraordinary buildings, Gülru 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. Using primary source material, Necipoglu describes how Sinan created a layered system of mosque types, reflecting social status and territorial rank. HARDBACK. NEW, IN PUBLISHERS SHRINK WRAP. Seller Inventory # ABE-1707521684666
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The Age of Sinan
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Mimar Koca Sinan (c. 1489-1588), the 'Great Architect Sinan', was appointedchief royal architect to the Ottoman court by Sultan Suleyman I in 1539.During his fifty-year career he designed and constructed hundreds of buildings and he became the most celebrated of all Ottoman architects, particularlyrenowned for his influence on the cityscape of Istanbul. In this innovative, major study, Gülru Necipog ̄lu argues that Sinan's rich variety of mosque designs sprang from a process of negotiation between the architect and his patrons, rather than from restless, unrestrained formal experimentation as has been previously described. 59A raf. Seller Inventory # ABE-1713012938547
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