| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Album of the Emperor, pages1 -- Chapter One. Sultan Ahmed I, pages13 -- Chapter Two. Sultan Ahmed's Artistic Patronage, pages33 -- Chapter Three. Kalender and the Album, pages61 -- Chapter Four. Calligraphy in the Album, pages89 -- Chapter Five. The City and the World in the Album, pages111 -- Chapter Six. European Prints from the Album, pages131 |
| Summary |
The Album of the World Emperor examines an extraordinary piece of art: an album of paintings, drawings, calligraphy, and European prints compiled for the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603-17) by his courtier Kalender Pasa (d. 1616). In this detailed study of one of the most important works of seventeenth-century Ottoman art, Emine Fetvaci uses the album to explore questions of style, iconography, foreign inspiration, and the very meaning of the visual arts in the Islamic world. The album's thirty-two folios feature artworks that range from intricate paper cutouts to the earliest examples of Islamic genre painting, and contents as eclectic as Persian and Persian-influenced calligraphy, studies of men and women of different ethnicities and backgrounds, depictions of popular entertainment and urban life, and European prints depicting Christ on the cross that in turn served as models for apocalyptic Ottoman paintings. Through the album, Fetvaci sheds light on imperial ideals as well as relationships between court life and popular culture, and shows that the boundaries between Ottoman art and the art of Iran and Western Europe were much more porous than has been assumed. Rather than perpetuating the established Ottoman idiom of the sixteenth century, the album shows that this was a time of openness to new models, outside sources, and fresh forms of expression. Beautifully illustrated and featuring all the folios of the original seventy-page album, The Album of the World Emperor revives a neglected yet significant artwork to demonstrate the distinctive aesthetic innovations of the Ottoman court |
| Analysis |
Non-Western (Traditional/Native Arts), Near and Middle East/Islamic Art (Traditional) Turkey Painting, Criticism/Theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Ahmed I. Osmanisches Reich, Sultan 1590-1617 |
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Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Kütüphane. Manuscript. Bagdat 408
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Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Istanbul Kütüphane |
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Bauhaus Dessau 1986-1994 Bereich Architektur und Sammlungen |
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Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Kütüphane. Manuscript. Bagdat 408. |
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Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century
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Albums -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century
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Islamic art -- Turkey -- 17th century
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Art, Ottoman -- 17th century
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab -- Turkey -- History
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Manuscripts, Arabic -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab
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Albums
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Art -- Collectors and collecting
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Art, Ottoman
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Islamic art
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Handschrift
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Malerei
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Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century.
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Albums -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century.
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Islamic art -- Turkey -- 17th century.
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Art, Ottoman -- 17th century.
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Turkey -- Istanbul
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Turkey
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Osmanisches Reich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023700487 |
| ISBN |
9780691194257 |
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0691194254 |
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