Ottoman Baroque : the architectural refashioning of eighteenth-century Istanbul /

A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its relationship with the West.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rüstem, Ünver (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Architecture, Ottoman > Turkey > Istanbul > History > 18th century. Architecture, Baroque > Turkey > Istanbul > History > 18th century. Architecture, Baroque > Influence. ARCHITECTURE / General.

Table of 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.