Sinan : [Book] : architect of Su?leyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Age / John Freely and Augusto Romano Burelli ; photographs by Ara Güler.

By:

Freely, John [author.]

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PicturePublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 2015Description: 141 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 33 cmContent type:

still image

ISBN:

9780500343111 (hardback)

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DDC classification:

720.92 23

Other classification:

720.92

Summary: Sinan was the greatest architect of the Ottoman Golden Age of the sixteenth century when the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith of power and magnificence. His style marks the apogee of Turkish art. Under Suleyman the Magnificent and his succcessor Selmi II, Sinan designed hundreds of buildings: mosques, palaces, tombs, mausolea, hospitals, schools, caravanserai, bridges, aqueducts and baths, many of them presented and analysed in this book. In his greatest works, he adapted Byzantine and Islamic styles to produce something quite new: a centralized organization of absolute space unhindered by pillars or columns and covered by a soaring dome. An architect of genius in a dynamic new empire expanding into both Asia and Europe, he was a true man of the Renaissance.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad	720.92 FRE-S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		55662
Books	Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad	720.92 FRE-S 61105 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		10001000061105

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Originally published: 1992.

Formerly CIP. Uk.

Sinan was the greatest architect of the Ottoman Golden Age of the sixteenth century when the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith of power and magnificence. His style marks the apogee of Turkish art. Under Suleyman the Magnificent and his succcessor Selmi II, Sinan designed hundreds of buildings: mosques, palaces, tombs, mausolea, hospitals, schools, caravanserai, bridges, aqueducts and baths, many of them presented and analysed in this book. In his greatest works, he adapted Byzantine and Islamic styles to produce something quite new: a centralized organization of absolute space unhindered by pillars or columns and covered by a soaring dome. An architect of genius in a dynamic new empire expanding into both Asia and Europe, he was a true man of the Renaissance.

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