The Topkapı scroll

Description:

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.

subjects: Arabesques,  Architectural drawing,  Architectural drawing, Timurid,  Catalogs,  Geometry in architecture,  Timurid Architectural drawing,  Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi,  Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Kütüphane,  Architecture,  Illustration,  Modern period, c 1500 onwards,  c 1000 CE to c 1500,  c 500 CE to c 1000 CE,  Asia, Central,  Islamic Architecture,  Art,  Islamic countries,  16th century,  Architecture / History,  Decoration & Ornament

Places: Central Asia,  Istanbul,  Turkey

Times: 16th century