Picturing history at the Ottoman court
By: Emine Fetvacı
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bloomington and Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780253006783
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: History in art; Ottoman Illumination of books and manuscripts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Ottoman illustrated history; title: Circulation, audience, and the creation of a shared court culture; title: Making books at the Ottoman court; title: Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and the illustrated Ottoman histories; title: Chief Black Eunuch Mehmed Agha: negotiating the sultanic image; title: In the image of a military ruler; title: A Venetian Ottomanized: Chief White Eunuch Gazanfer Agha and his artistic patronage.