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The first study of album-making in the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire, demonstrating the period's little-known experimentation, eclecticism, and openness to international influences. **The first study of album-making in the Ottoman empire during the seventeenth century, demonstrating the period’s experimentation, eclecticism, and global outlook** __The Album of the World Emperor__ examines an extraordinary piece of art: an album of paintings, drawings, calligraphy, and European prints compiled for the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603–17) by his courtier Kalender Paşa (d. 1616). In this detailed study of one of the most important works of seventeenth-century Ottoman art, Emine Fetvacı uses the album to explore questions of style, iconography, foreign inspiration, and the very meaning of the visual arts in the Islamic world. The album’s thirty-two folios feature artworks that range from intricate paper cutouts to the earliest examples of Islamic genre painting, and contents as eclectic as Persian and Persian-influenced calligraphy, studies of men and women of different ethnicities and backgrounds, depictions of popular entertainment and urban life, and European prints depicting Ch

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Author

Emine Fetvacı

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691189154

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Design, Social Science