The Topkapı scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture : Topkapı Palace Museum Library MS H. 1956 / Gülru Necipoğlu ; with an essay on the geometry of the muqarnas by Mohammad al-Asad.

Main entry:

Necipoğlu, Gülru.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1995.

Description:

xii, 395 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 x 35 cm.

Series:

Sketchbooks & albums

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-380) and index.

Summary:

"Precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world. One exceedingly rich and valuable source of information, however, is the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum, examined here by Gulru Necipoglu." "In The Topkapi Scroll - Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture, Necipoglu undertakes an in-depth analysis of this unusual pattern scroll and sheds new light on architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. She also makes an insightful comparison between the Islamic understanding of geometry and that found in medieval Western art."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0892363355
9780892363353

Subject:

Timuriden.
Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Kütüphane. Manuscript. H. 1956 Catalogs.
Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Kütüphane. H. 1956. Catalogs.
Istanbul Topkapi-Museum Bibliothek Ms. H. 1956.
Architectural drawing, Timurid Catalogs.
Architectural drawing Asia, Central 16th century Catalogs.
Geometry in architecture.
Arabesques Catalogs.
Architectural drawing Turkey Istanbul Catalogs.
Dessin d'architecture Asie centrale 16e siècle Catalogues.
Géométrie en architecture.
Arabesques Catalogues.
Arabesques
Architectural drawing
Architectural drawing, Timurid
Islamische Architektur
Geometrie
Bauzeichnung
Geometrisches Ornament
Islam
Handschrift
Architecture islamique Thèmes, motifs Catalogues.
Architecture tīmūride Thèmes, motifs Catalogues.
Arabesques (art) Catalogues.
Décoration islamique.
Central Asia
Turkey Istanbul
Zentralasien
Architectural drawing Catalogs 16th century Asia, Central
Architectural drawing Catalogs Turkey Istanbul
Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi / Kütüphane Manuscript Catalogs

Form/genre:

Catalogs
Katalog.

Added entries:

Al-Asad, Mohammad.
Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.
Sketchbooks & albums.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 120966
Call No.: IDM NA2706.A7 N4; ID:95-B2186
Status: Available

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