| Physical description |
511 pages, 4 plates, illustrations (some colour), maps, plans. ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 496-502. |
| Contents |
Maps of the Ottoman Empire 8 -- Map of Anatolia 12 -- 1 Before the capture of Bursa 14 -- 2 Bursa - the first mosques 34 -- 3 Bursa - the Green Mosque and after 58 -- 4 From Edirne to Istanbul 92 -- 5 Prelude to the Grand Manner - Beyazit II 142 -- 6 Sinan - the rise to greatness 196 -- 7 Sinan - the master 240 -- 8 Powers decline 284 -- 9 Preclude to change 334 -- 10 Baroque and after 380 -- 11 Ottoman house 428 -- Appendix I Janissaries 454 -- Appendix II Vakfiye and imaret systems 457. |
| Summary |
Godfrey Goodwin study immediately established itself as the definitive work on the subject when it was first published, and it remains the only comprehensive survey in English and virtually the only account of the last two centuries of Turkish architecture. |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Turkey.
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Architecture, Ottoman -- Turkey.
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Islamic architecture -- Turkey.
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| ISBN |
0500274290 (paperback) |
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0500340404 |
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