OTTOMAN BAROQUE /
THE ARCHITECTURAL REFASHIONING OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ISTANBUL
ÜNVER RÜSTEM
- xi, 324 pages : photos ; 29 cm
Includes index
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-312)
OTTOMAN BAROQUE -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