Publication : "Ottoman Baroque : The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul".

RÜSTEM Ünver, Ottoman Baroque : The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, 336 p. Présentation de l'éditeur : With its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European Baroque models, the eighteenth-century architecture of Istanbul has frequently been dismissed by modern observers as inauthentic and derivative, a view reflecting broader unease with notions of Western influence on Islamic cultures. In Ottoman Baroque—the fi..