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The world of Ottoman art / Michael Levey.

By: Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1975Description: 152 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimile, maps, portraits ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780500232286
  • 0500232288
  • 9780500270653
  • 0500270651
Subject(s):
Contents:
Early cities and style - Istanbul : creation of a new capital - The age of Sinan - Achievement amid decline - Intimations of Rococo - The exotic West.
Summary: Ottoman art has been little written about in English and probably remains - for all the splendour of its tiles, miniatures and jewels, as well as its mosques and tombs - one of the least-known and least appreciated of artistic styles. This book has been written out of enthusiasm, to encourage greater exploration and awareness of a rich and fascinating culture. It has been written also with the general reader and ordinary tourist much in mind, to introduce an outstanding artistic achievement, placing it within a clear historical framework. Shifts of artistic emphasis and the characters of the chief patrons, the Sultans, are traced over the centuries fro Osman's founding of the Empire to its collapse at the abdication of Abdul Hamid in 1909. With architecture inevitably dominant, the arts of each period are treated together so as to convey the maximum possible impact of an immediately appealing world, excitingly novel to Western eyes and wonderfully well-preserved.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Yellow 709.56 LEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 02522

Includes bibliographical references (page 149) and index.

Early cities and style - Istanbul : creation of a new capital - The age of Sinan - Achievement amid decline - Intimations of Rococo - The exotic West.

Ottoman art has been little written about in English and probably remains - for all the splendour of its tiles, miniatures and jewels, as well as its mosques and tombs - one of the least-known and least appreciated of artistic styles. This book has been written out of enthusiasm, to encourage greater exploration and awareness of a rich and fascinating culture. It has been written also with the general reader and ordinary tourist much in mind, to introduce an outstanding artistic achievement, placing it within a clear historical framework. Shifts of artistic emphasis and the characters of the chief patrons, the Sultans, are traced over the centuries fro Osman's founding of the Empire to its collapse at the abdication of Abdul Hamid in 1909. With architecture inevitably dominant, the arts of each period are treated together so as to convey the maximum possible impact of an immediately appealing world, excitingly novel to Western eyes and wonderfully well-preserved.