Examples of Ottoman Empire in the following topics:
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- Stretching across Asia, Europe, and Africa, the Empire was vast and long lived, lasting until 1922 when the monarchy was abolished in Turkey.
- Despite variations, Ottoman architecture remained fairly uniform throughout the empire.
- The art of carpet weaving was particularly important in the Ottoman Empire, where carpets were immensely valued both as decorative furnishings and for their practical value.
- The Ottoman Empire was also known for the skill of its gold and silver smiths, who made jewelry with complex designs and incorporated complex filigree work and a variety of Persian and Byzantine motifs.
- Summarize the characteristics of art and architecture from the Ottoman empire.
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- 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.
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- The most important textile produced in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Empires was the carpet.
- The most important textile produced in Medieval and Early
Modern Islamic Empires was the carpet.
- The art of carpet weaving was particularly
important in the Ottoman
Empire.
- Within the Ottoman Empire, carpets were immensely valued both as decorative furnishings
and for their practical value.
- 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.
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- 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.
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- The Byzantine Empire began as a continuation of the Roman Empire but gradually became distinct through cultural changes.
- This act effectively ended the line of Western emperors and marked the end of the Western Empire.
- This swath of territory remained in the Byzantine Empire for two centuries.
- 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.
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- The Islamic Iranian Safavid Empire (1501-1786) is marked by the development of various artistic styles in Persia.
- 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.
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- The period of Late Byzantium saw the decline of the Byzantine Empire during the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries.
- 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 Division of the Byzantine Empire after its Sacking in 1204
- The division of the Byzantine Empire after its sacking in 1204 by French and Italian armies during the Fourth Crusades
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- Byzantine Emperor Justinian I launched an ambitious building program to develop holy sites to restore the glory of the Roman Empire.
- During his reign, he sought to revive the empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the historical Roman 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.
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- When one thinks of art and architecture in the eastern Islamic world during the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period, the Mughal Empire comes to mind.
- Timurid architecture is the pinnacle of Islamic art in Central Asia, and many architectural features of this time were incorporated into later Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal architecture.
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- 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.