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Fetvaci, Emine Fatma.

Viziers to eunuchs: Transitions in Ottoman manuscript patronage, 1566--1617.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Viziers to eunuchs: Transitions in Ottoman manuscript patronage, 1566--1617.
Author:	Fetvaci, Emine Fatma.
Description:	533 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Gulru Necipoglu.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1198.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-04A.
Subject:	Art History.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3173897
ISBN:	9780542113444

Viziers to eunuchs: Transitions in Ottoman manuscript patronage, 1566--1617.
Fetvaci, Emine Fatma.

Viziers to eunuchs: Transitions in Ottoman manuscript patronage, 1566--1617. - 533 p.

Adviser: Gulru Necipoglu.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

Case studies juxtaposing the biographies of two grand viziers and two servants of the imperial household with their books demonstrate how the social changes of the period affected artistic production. The increased number of illustrated short stories and quasi-religious works supplanting dynastic histories, and the shift in language from Persian to Ottoman Turkish after the middle of the 1580's reflect the preferences of new patrons. On a larger scale, these new themes also mirror the transitions in courtly culture from the "classical" Ottoman institutions to the new world order of the seventeenth century. The visual record of the reign of Ahmed I (r. 1601--17), examined in the conclusion, illustrates the outcome of these transitions.

ISBN: 9780542113444Subjects--Topical Terms:

212490
Art History.

Viziers to eunuchs: Transitions in Ottoman manuscript patronage, 1566--1617.
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520 # $a This dissertation examines illustrated manuscript patronage in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Ottoman court and calls for a more nuanced understanding of the ideological, cultural, and social functions of its artistic projects. Although non-royal courtiers played a vital role in the production of illustrated manuscripts at the Ottoman court, scholarship has continued to promote a paradigm of imperial ideology as the motivation behind the production of these books. This study proposes an innovative perspective by assessing verbal and visual evidence from the manuscripts to bring to light the dynamic community that fueled one of the most prolific periods in the history of Islamic art.
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