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Constantinopolis/Istanbul : cultural encounter, imperial vision, and the construction of the Ottoman capital
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Constantinopolis/Istanbul : cultural encounter, imperial vision, and the construction of the Ottoman capital

Author: Çiğdem Kafescioğlu
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009.
Series: Buildings, landscapes, and societies, 5.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Studies the reconstruction of Byzantine Constantinople as the capital city of the Ottoman empire following its capture in 1453, delineating the complex interplay of socio-political, architectural, visual, and literary processes that underlay the city's transformation"--Provided by publisher.
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Genre/Form: In art
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Çiğdem Kafescioğlu
ISBN: 9780271027760 0271027762
OCLC Number: 301705588
Notes: Series statement from jacket.
Description: xxxii, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Contents: Between Edirne and Kostantiniyye: the city's first Ottoman years --
Constructing the city: architecture and its audiences --
The urban program and Mehmed II's foundation --
The patronage of the new ruling elite --
Memory, space, and vision in constructions of the Ottoman capital city --
Representing the city: Constantinople and its images --
Istanbul inhabited --
Epilogue: a picture from circa 1537.
Series Title: Buildings, landscapes, and societies, 5.
Responsibility: Çiğdem Kafescioğlu.

Abstract:

"Studies the reconstruction of Byzantine Constantinople as the capital city of the Ottoman empire following its capture in 1453, delineating the complex interplay of socio-political, architectural, visual, and literary processes that underlay the city's transformation"--Provided by publisher.

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