Persianate Models in the Pictorial Representation of Architecture within 16th-Century Ottoman Illustrated Manuscripts
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The pictorial representation of architectural structures fundamentally shaped the aesthetics of a great many Persianate and Ottoman book illustrations. Facilitated by a cultural, literal and architectural connectivity, acquisitions of Persianate manuscripts and the mobility of Persian painters into the Ottoman court workshop, the formative period of Ottoman book painting was marked by an inspiration from the Persianate idiom and style. This paper will demonstrate, using selected examples, how the compositional layout of the buildings and settings portrayed, their architectural form and elements, the decorative repertoire in the revetment of the façades and dados, and the visual means of their pictorial representation, evidence continuity in a considerable number of early Ottoman book illustrations. An 'autonomous' Ottoman approach developed in the second half of the 16th century and some of these Persianate models vanished. However, many were emulated and appropriated, eventually undergoing gradual alterations over the course of time, but remaining as a long-lasting vestige of the Persianate actuality in Ottoman book painting. |
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