Author :
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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Author : Roland Urban
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9782869111370
Author : Agnieszka Dobrowolska
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,21 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 : 33,67 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.
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Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781614284659
"This photographic opus expresses the sublime beauty of the people, nature, and places of this legendary region of India. From palaces to singular creative interiors, this promenade through the myriad colors and traditional handicrafts of Rajasthan captures the idealized Western dream of the Orient" -- Publisher's description.
Author : Linda Schatkowski Schilcher
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : John Bowring
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Syria
ISBN :
Author : Géza Fehér
Publisher :
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Suraiya Faroqhi
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Europe
ISBN :
To a large extent the present volume deals with merchants established on Ottoman territory for a long time. Whether they were subjects of the sultans or not will be considered of secondary importance; but many if not most of them probably fell into that category. 'Hard to pin down' traders also occur; in particular we have included a number of studies discussing people who started their lives as Ottoman subjects but whose business activities took them to Venice or the Habsburg territories, where some of them struck roots. Such situations after all form part of the life stories of merchants anywhere; and given the broad expanses of sea and land that many Mediterranean traders traversed, it makes sense to adopt as broad a perspective as possible.
Author : Charles Avery
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780719519321
"Some of the greatest names in the history of art are those of Florentine sculptors: Ghiberti, Donatello and Luca della Robbia; Verrocchio and Michelangelo; Cellini and Giovanni Bologna. These were the creators of a school of sculpture that remained supreme for over two centuries."--BOOK COVER.
