The Topkapi Palace

Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Necipoglu demonstrates the palace's role as a vast stage for the enactment of a ceremonial that emphasized the sultan's absolute power and his aloofness from the outside world. In the absence of the monumentality, axiality, and rational geometric planning principles now usually associated with imperial architecture, the author's deciphering of the palace's iconography is all the more revealing.

Author : Fanny Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palace of Topkapi in Istanbul written by Fanny Davis and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Karaz
Publisher : Citlembik Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789756663493
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topkapi Palace written by Claire Karaz and published by Citlembik Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical, concise, and beautifully illustrated guide to the Topkapi Palace complex is up-to-date and packed with interesting and original information not found elsewhere. Detailed maps lead the visitor easily through the maze of buildings and courtyards. It contains information on the palace and collections, along with the sultans, harem women, pages, and eunuchs who lived there.

Author : Ilber Ortayli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935295006
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topkapi Palace written by Ilber Ortayli and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual tour to the most popular historic site in Istanbul, Turkey, this illustrated guide to Topkapi Palace -- the official and primary residence of the Ottoman sultans who ruled a vast transcontinental empire for six centuries -- reveals the historic art pieces and sacred relics contained within and explores Ottoman history as it relates to specific sections of the palace. Ortayli, a famed Turkish historian and scholar, provides an enjoyable background information to almost every picture in the book. Any person interested in the Ottoman history and Middle Eastern history would enjoy reading this book. With an elegantly designed cover and interior, it is a great source for libraries and art museums as potential buyers of this book.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palace of Gold & Light written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Godfrey Goodwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topkapi Palace written by Godfrey Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the palace of the Ottoman sultans in Istanbul, it takes the reader through all the rooms and gardens which are open to the public - and some that are not. It talks about the thousands who lived in the saray. It gives an understanding of this core of Ottoman life.

Author : Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Hırka-i Saadet Dairesi
Publisher : Tughra Books
ISBN 13 : 1932099727
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Trusts written by Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Hırka-i Saadet Dairesi and published by Tughra Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeous, full-color photographic guide reveals the marvelous collection of the sacred relics at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, which houses more than 600 invaluable belongings from prophets such as Abraham, Moses, and Muhammad as well as a number of Muslim saints. Excavated from the most restricted rooms of the palace, the entire selection?including the pieces that are not on exhibit for daily visits?is compiled here for the first time in this fundamental handbook, making it perfect for students interested in Ottoman history, sacred relics of the Ottoman rule, or the broader Islamic heritage.

Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892363355
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Topkapi Scroll written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.

Author : Sabahattin Türkoğlu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789754790740
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Topkapi Palace written by Sabahattin Türkoğlu and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to the Topkapi Palace and Museum in Istanbul, Turkey.

Author : Ilber Ortayli
Publisher : Blue Dome Press
ISBN 13 : 1935295357
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private and Royal Life in the Ottoman Palace written by Ilber Ortayli and published by Blue Dome Press. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topkapi Palace was the official and primary residence of the Ottoman sultans for almost four centuries of their 624-year reign. This illustrated guide to Topkapi Palace (the heart of a vast transcontinental empire until the mid-nineteenth century) explores Ottoman history, as it relates to specific sections of the palace. Ortayli, a famed Turkish historian and scholar, introduces the audience to the outer and inner sections of the palace as well as the family quarters, providing them with profound background information about their functions, architecture and decorations. His references to the palace customs, people, and particular events present the reader with a living history.