The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and Album Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul...

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Emine Fetvacı

The Album of the World Emperor

Cross-Cultural Collecting and Album Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul

Emine Fetvacı

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Princeton University Press
17 March 2020

History of Art & Design Styles; Middle Eastern history; Islamic studies

The first study of album-making in the Ottoman empire during the seventeenth century, demonstrating the period's experimentation, eclecticism, and global outlookThe 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 Pasa (d. 1616). In this detailed study of one of the most important works of seventeenth-century Ottoman art, Emine Fetvaci 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 Christ on the cross that in turn served as models for apocalyptic Ottoman paintings. Through the album, Fetvaci sheds light on imperial ideals as well as relationships between court life and popular culture, and shows that the boundaries between Ottoman art and the art of Iran and Western Europe were much more porous than has been assumed. Rather than perpetuating the established Ottoman idiom of the sixteenth century, the album shows that this was a time of openness to new models, outside sources, and fresh forms of expression.

Beautifully illustrated and featuring all the folios of the original seventy-page album, The Album of the World Emperor revives a neglected yet significant artwork to demonstrate the distinctive aesthetic innovations of the Ottoman court.

By: Emine Fetvacı
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 203mm,
ISBN: 9780691189154
ISBN 10: 0691189153
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 17 March 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emine Fetvac is associate professor of Islamic art at Boston University. She is the author of Picturing History at the Ottoman Court and the coeditor of Writing History at the Ottoman Court.

Reviews for The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and Album Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul

This truly stunning book is a landmark in the field. Fetvaci introduces readers to the album compiled for Ahmed I, which has previously never been systematically studied, and uses the album as a launching pad for cogent arguments about changing tastes and artistic priorities at the seventeenth-century Ottoman court. -Jane Hathaway, author of The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem This expansively researched book closely scrutinizes the Ahmed I album and places it in its broadest cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts. Offering an insightful and multilayered reading of the conceptual underpinnings of the album's construction, The Album of the World Emperor makes a valuable and original contribution to Islamicate cultural and art history, Ottoman studies, and the history of early modern cultural connections and interactions. -Cigdem Kafescioglu, author of Constantinopolis/Istanbul