Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ART AND EMPIRE: THE OTTOMAN WORLD

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course looks at the art and architecture of the Ottoman empire, the longest surviving Muslim empire, from its inception in 1453 until its demise in the 1920s. Based on in-depth studies of religious and secular monuments, objects, and paintings, it examines the roots of Ottoman visual culture, the formation of a canonic style, relations with eastern and western artistic traditions, issues of power and identity in art, systems of patronage, concepts of westernization and Ottoman modernism.