Turkish Art from the Seljuks to the Ottomans (Arte Turca Dai Selgiuchidi Agli Ottomani) (5610100097)

296 pages. Italian art historian Giovanni Curatola's comprehensive study titled Turkish Art from the Seljuks to the Ottomans covers the different styles, lifestyles, and traces of nomadic and shamanic culture that the Seljuks brought with them, who settled permanently in the Byzantine lands in Anatolia, combining them with local Mediterranean traditions, to the conquest of Istanbul, Sinan the Architect. It traces a thousand years of magnificent history, the Turkish-Islamic civilization, from the golden age of Ottoman architecture under the leadership of the Ottoman Empire to the 18th and 19th centuries, when interaction with Europe increased, and periods such as Art Nouveau. A passion for beauty, harmony of color and form, a search for sublime elegance that continues throughout caravanserais, mosques, carpets, manuscripts, armour, ceramics, tiles and miniatures; Reflecting the unique richness of geometric motifs of calligraphy on stone, facade architecture and portals, it takes Byzantine architecture as its model.