Author : Dominique de Font-Réaulx
Publisher : 5Continents
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9788874394661
Illustrates the development and rapid spread of Louis Daguerre's photographic invention in France by a variety of daguerreotypes drawn from the collection of the Musee d'Orsay.
Author : Lawrence Perry
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Newport (R.I.)
ISBN :
Author : Margaret FitzHerbert
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Diplomats
ISBN : 9780192818560
Author : Agnieszka Dobrowolska
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9774165233
The small sabil-kuttab (a charitable foundation particular to Cairo that combines a public water dispensary with a Quranic school) built in 1760 opposite the venerated Sayyida Zeinab Mosque is almost unique in Cairo: it is one of only two dedicated by a reigning Ottoman sultan, and--astonishingly--it is decorated inside with blue-and-white tiles from Amsterdam depicting happy scenes from the Dutch countryside. Why did the sultan, Mustafa III, cloistered in his Istanbul palace, decide to build a sabil in Cairo? Why did he choose this site for it? How did it come to be adorned with Dutch tiles? What were the connections between Cairo, Istanbul, and Amsterdam in the middle of the eighteenth century? The authors answer these questions and many more in this entertaining and beautifully illustrated history of an extraordinary building, describing also the recent conservation efforts to preserve it for posterity.
Author : S. Ireland
Publisher : British Institute at Ankara
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1912090619
Seemingly contradictory ideas of privacy and community dominate Ottoman cities. While houses are internally divided to guard female modesty behind a frontage studded with peep-holes, streets in cities like Amasya are often bridged by first-floor passageways between different houses. This book contains 17 papers by architects and archaeologists looking at how the Ottoman house was structured, how it has varied over time and space, and how surviving examples are faring in a world of breeze-block construction. Although the examples discussed are all Near Eastern, and mostly from Turkey, the revelations this book contains about structuring principles will make it a valuable companion to understanding architectural relics from all over the Ottoman Empire.
Author : Marc Bloch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1317517725
First published in English in 1973, The Royal Touch explores the supernatural character that was long attributed to royal power. Throughout history, both France and England claimed to hold kings with healing powers who, by their touch, could cure people from all strands of society from illness and disease. Indeed, the idea of royalty as something miraculous and sacred was common to the whole of Western Europe. Using the work of both professional scholars and of doctors, this work stands as a contribution to the political history of Europe.
Author : June Ellen Hargrove
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN :
The essays in this volume grew out of a symposium at the University of Maryland's Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.
Author : Elizabeth (Princess of England)
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Linda Schatkowski Schilcher
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : John Bowring
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Syria
ISBN :
