Iznik and Ottoman Ceramics
In the latter half of the fifteenth century, following the Fall of Constantinople and the establishment of the Ottoman Court in the former capital of the Byzantine Empire, many areas of artistic production…
Vegetal Patterns in Islamic Art
With the exception of the garden and its usual reference to paradise, vegetal motifs and patterns in Islamic art are largely devoid of symbolic meaning. Vegetal patterns employed alone or in combination with…
The Ottoman Madrassa
Plan of the Karatay Madrassa This short article is taken from the full article which is available here as a PDF file For more than three centuries Muslims used the mosque for…
