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Author Rüstem, Ünver, author

Title Ottoman Baroque : the architectural refashioning of eighteenth-century Istanbul / Ünver Rüstem
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019

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Description xi, 324 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
Contents Introduction -- Setting the scene : the return to Istanbul -- Pleasing times and their "pleasing new style" : Mahmud I and the emergence of the Ottoman Baroque -- A tradition reborn : the Nuruosmaniye mosque and its global audiences -- The old, the new, and the in-between : stylistic consciousness and the establishment of tradition -- At the sultan's threshold : the architecture of engagement as new imperial paradigm -- Conclusion
Summary A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its relationship with the West
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Architecture, Ottoman -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 18th century.
Architecture, Baroque -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 18th century.
Architecture, Baroque -- Influence.
LC no. 2018013416
ISBN 9780691181875 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)