LEADER 03810oam 2200469Ka 450 001 9910901896703321 005 20230720204254.0 010 $a0-262-36805-6 010 $a9780262368056 035 $a(CKB)5450000000038560 035 $a(OCoLC)555364528$z(OCoLC)297422742$z(OCoLC)1148025742 035 $a(OCoLC-P)555364528 035 $a(MaCbMITP)1358 035 $a(EXLCZ)995450000000038560 100 $a20100315d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArchitecture, ceremonial, and power $ethe Topkapi Palace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries /$fGu?lru Necipog?lu 210 $aNew York, N.Y. $cArchitectural History Foundation ;$aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dİ1991 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations, maps 300 $aRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 1986. 311 $a0-262-14050-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aGlru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced, before it came to represent a stereotyped microcosm of oriental despotism imbued with the exotic otherness of the East. Today the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul seems a haphazard aggregate of modest buildings no longer capable of conveying imperial power. Yet it is at once the most celebrated of all Islamic palaces and the least understood. Glru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced, before it came to represent a stereotyped microcosm of oriental despotism imbued with the exotic otherness of the East. She relocates the Topkapi in its historical context, a context that included not only the circumstances of its patronage, but the complex interaction of cultural practices, ideologies, and social codes of recognition. Necipoglu focuses on the imperial iconograpy of palatial forms that lack monumentality, axiality, and rational-geometric planning principles to decipher codes of grandeur that are no longer obvious to the modern observer. She reconstructs the architectural and ceremonial impact of the palace through a step-by-step tour of its buildings, demonstrating how the palace was experienced as a processional sequence of separate courts and seemingly disjointed architectural elements that were nevertheless integrated into a coherent whole by passage through time and space. Far more than an analysis of the architectural program of the palace, Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power raises questions and provides answers to fundamental concerns about the ideology of absolute sovereignty, the interplay between architecture and ritual, and the changing perceptions of a building through the centuries, a building that drew upon a wide range of Palatine traditions, mythical, Islamic, Turco-Mongol, Romano-Byzantine, and Italian Renaissance. 606 $aArchitecture, Ottoman$zTurkey$zIstanbul 607 $aIstanbul (Turkey)$xBuildings, structures, etc 607 $aTurkey$xCourt and courtiers$xSocial life and customs 610 0 $aPalaces 610 0 $aTurkey 610 $aARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/General 615 0$aArchitecture, Ottoman 676 $a725/.17/0949618 700 $aNecipog?lu$b Gu?lru$0865282 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910901896703321 996 $aArchitecture, ceremonial, and power$94273472 997 $aUNINA