Ottoman

Examples of Ottoman in the following topics:

• Ottoman Empire

  • Ottoman art and architecture were a vibrant synthesis of Turkish, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean styles.
  • Despite variations, Ottoman architecture remained fairly uniform throughout the empire.
  • The intricate designs combined traditional Ottoman arabesque patterns with Chinese elements.
  • The Ottoman Turks were famed for the quality of their finely woven and intricately knotted silk carpets.
  • Summarize the characteristics of art and architecture from the Ottoman empire.

• Islamic Book Painting

  • Manuscript painting in the late medieval Islamic world reached its height in Persia, Syria, Iraq, and the Ottoman Empire.
  • Book painting in the late medieval Islamic world reached its height in Persia, Syria, Iraq, and the Ottoman Empire.
  • The tradition of the Persian miniature developed during this period, and strongly influenced the Ottoman miniature of Turkey and the Mughal miniature in India.
  • Mughal portraits, normally in profile, are very finely drawn in a realist style, while the best Ottoman ones are vigorously stylized.
  • These books contain numerous illustrations and exhibit a strong Safavid influence, perhaps inspired by books captured in the course of the Ottoman-Safavid wars of the 16th century.

• Islamic Textiles

  • The art of carpet weaving was particularly important in the Ottoman Empire.
  • The Ottoman state was founded by Turkish tribes in northwestern Anatolia in 1299 and became an empire in 1453 after the momentous conquest of Constantinople.
  • Within the Ottoman Empire, carpets were immensely valued both as decorative furnishings and for their practical value.
  • Hereke silk carpets, which were made in the coastal town of Hereke, were the most valued of the Ottoman carpets because of their fine weave.
  • The Ottoman Turks were famed for their quality of their finely woven and intricately knotted silk carpets.

• Islamic Architecture

  • Ottoman mosques and other architecture first emerged in the cities of Bursa and Edirne in the 14th and 15th centuries, developing from earlier Seljuk Turk architecture, with additional influences from Byzantine, Persian, and Islamic Mamluk traditions.
  • Byzantine styles as seen in the Hagia Sophia served as particularly important models for Ottoman mosques, such as the mosque constructed by Sinan.
  • Building reached its peak in the 16th century when Ottoman architects mastered the technique of building vast inner spaces surmounted by seemingly weightless yet incredibly massive domes, and achieved perfect harmony between inner and outer spaces, as well as articulated light and shadow.
  • The Blue Mosque represents the culmination of Ottoman construction with its numerous domes, slender minarets and overall harmony.

• The Modern Era

  • From the 15th century the number of smaller Islamic courts began to fall, as the Ottoman Empire, and later the Safavids and European powers, swallowed them up.
  • The Turks of the Ottoman Empire adopted versions of Rococo which had a lasting effect on sculpture and architecture, and the Qajars, a Turkmen tribe established after the fall of the Iranian Safavids, displayed art with an increasing European influence, as seen in their steelwork and in the large oil paintings portraying the Qajar shahs.

• Late Byzantine Art

  • Although the capital city of Constantinople and empire as a whole prospered as a connection between east and west traders, Byzantium continually dealt with threats from the Ottoman Turks to the east and the Latin Empire to the west.
  • Once more, Constantinople  became a prosperous Byzantine city until falling to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

• The Byzantine Empire

  • In the late eleventh century, the empire lost much of Asia Minor to the Turks, a temporary setback that foreshadowed the ventral weakening of Constantinople and further loss of territory to the growing Ottoman Empire.
  • In 1453, the Ottoman Turks invaded and captured Constantinople, bringing the Byzantine Empire to an end.

• Architecture in the Early Byzantine Empire

  • After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, the plan of the Hagia Sophia would significantly influence the construction and design of the Süleymaniye Mosque (1550-1557).
  • Because blueprints did not exist yet, and because the church was demolished shortly after the Ottoman conquest, the design details of the building are a matter of dispute.

• Safavid Dynasty

  • The Iranian Safavid Empire (1501-1786) is distinguished from the Mughal and Ottoman dynasties by the Shi'a faith of its shahs, which was the majority Islamic denomination in Persia.

• Islamic Ceramics

  • Ottoman Iznik pottery produced most of the finest ceramics of the 16th century, in tiles and large vessels boldly decorated with floral motifs influenced by Chinese Yuan and Ming ceramics.