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Step into a universe of a many distinguished designer of a Ottoman Empire
- Updated: September 9, 2017
Suleymaniye Mosque prisoner by Kamil Firat
Most travellers to Istanbul compensate a revisit to a ancestral Sultan Ahmed Mosque, improved famous as The Blue Mosque. However, only 20 mins divided is another marvel, Suleymaniye Mosque, deliberate one of a largest mosques ever built during a Ottoman empire. The Byzantine architectural masterpiece has a large executive dome, pierced with 32 openings, that irradiate a mosque’s interiors. It’s a work of a distinguished Ottoman architect, Mimar Sinan (1490-1588).
Sehzade Mosque
If you’re penetrating to know some-more about a master, dump in during an muster curated by Rachana Sansad’s Academy of Architecture and a Turkish Consulate General. It facilities frames prisoner by Turkish photographer Kamil Firat, that try a attribute of sky and space in Sinan’s works. These photographs were displayed during an muster organized by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee in Istanbul final year.
Firat’s shot of Selimiye Mosque
The exhibits also embody investigate panels of drawings and POP reproduction models of mosques that Sinan designed. The academy’s students combined them during a semester-long march on a architect. “It started as a college plan for a third year students, and has culminated in a grand exhibition. The thought is to scold mainstream stupidity about Sinan’s conspicuous impact on architectural history,” says highbrow Rohit Shinkre.
A contemporary of Italian craftsmen Andrea Palladio and Michelangelo, Sinan has mostly been credited for being a initial to realize a architectural impression of domes, manifest in some of his many famous works — Sehzade Mosque in Istanbul and Selimiye Mosque, located in a city of Edirne in Turkey. Born in Anatolia, he hold a bureau of a arch designer of a Ottoman Empire for 50 years. His oeuvre facilities 400 structures, including mosques, palaces, open baths, tombs, schools and hospitals.
Students operative on reproduction models
This weekend, a group has also organized talks by Firat and Dr Halil Onur, designer and executive of Conservation of Heritage, Istanbul, along with curatorial tours by designer Neesha Mewada.
From: Sep 9 to 17, 10 am to 6 pm
At: Library Hall, Rajabai Tower and Library Building, Mumbai University, MG Road, Fort
Email: celebratingsinan@aoamumbai.in
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