Caught in a Whirlwind : a Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad As Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad As Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9789004412699
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts; Art and society; Iraq, history
Description: "Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in its Illustrated Manuscripts focuses on a period of great artistic vitality in the region of Baghdad, a frontier area that was caught between the rival Ottoman and the Safavid empires. In the period following the peace treaty of 1590, a corpus of more than thirty illustrated manuscripts and several single page paintings were produced. In this book Melis Taner presents a contextual study of the vibrant late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century Baghdad art market, opening up further avenues of research on art production in provinces and border regions"--