The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire

摘要: Mimar Koca Sinan (c. 1489 1588), the Great Architect Sinan', was appointed chief royal architect to Ottoman court by Sultan Suleyman I in 1539. During his fifty-year career he designed and constructed hundreds of buildings including mosques, palaces, harems, chapels, tombs, schools, almshouses, madrassahs, caravanserais, granaries, fountains, aqueducts hospitals. His distinctive architectural idiom also left its imprint over terrains a vast empire extending from Danube Tigris, became most celebrated all architects, particularly renowned for influence on cityscape Istanbul. Sinan's influential were mosque complexes, where inventive experimentation with light-filled centralized domes, often compared parallel developments Renaissance Italy, produced spaces which central dome appeared weightless interior surfaces bathed light. In this monumental new study, Gulru Necipoglu argues that rich variety designs sprang process negotiation between patrons, rather than unrestrained formal as has been previously described. The author is first use published unpublished primary sources illuminate cultural setting monuments produced, received experienced. describes how created layered system types, reflecting social status territorial rank, shaped ideas identity, memory decorum. Seen perspective, works, their highly standardized pattern forms, used ingeniously varied combinations, acquire dimensions meaning have not recognized.