Book Details

Ottoman Baroque : The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul / Unver Rustem

Publication year: 2019

: 9780691181875

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A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its place in the world. With its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European Baroque models, the eighteenth-century architecture of Istanbul has frequently been dismissed by modern observers as inauthentic and derivative, a view reflecting broader unease with notions of Western influence on Islamic cultures.


: History of architecture, Architecture, Ottoman -- Turkey 18th century, Architecture, Baroque -- Turkey 18th century, Architecture, Baroque -- Influence, Ottoman Baroque, Islamic architecture