| ISBN |
6054348043 (pbk.) |
| 9786054348046 (pbk.) |
| Corporate Author |
Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi |
| Title |
From Byzantion to Istanbul : 8000 years of a capital |
| Publisher |
[Istanbul] : [Sakip Sabanci Museum], 2010 |
| Physical desc. |
510, [1] p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 27 cm. |
| Note |
Catalogue and collection of essays to accompany the exhibition, From Byzantion to Istanbul: 8000 years of a capital, held 5 June-4 September 2010, at the Sakip Sabanci Museum, Sabanci University, Istanbul. |
| CBL illustrations: p. 307 (cat. 455), p. 359 (fig. 5), p. 418 (cat. 455) (T 439.9); p. 321 (fig. 3) (T 413, ff. 22b-23a); p. 376 (cat. 318) (T 406.1); p. 388 (cat. 342) (T 413, f. 115b); p. 406 (cat. 397) (T 447, f. 9a) |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction. The legendary history of Constantinople-Istanbul / Doğan Kuban -- I. Prehistory and the birth of the city. Earliest traces. Prehistoric Istanbul / Mehmet Özdoğan -- City in the classical period. Byzantion: colony-city-capital / İnci Delemen -- Silahtarağa sculptures / Şehrazat Karagöz -- II. Constantinople: capital of Byzantine Empire. Byzantine Constantinople as imperial and commercial center. Constantinople as an imperial capital / Paul Magdalino -- The economy of Byzantine Constantinople, ca. 850-1453 / David Jacoby -- Through an Eastern window: Muslims in Constantinople in early Islamic sources / Koray Durak -- Life and arts in the Byzantine capital. Does art tell us the same story as history books? / Robin Cormack -- The architectural heritage of Byzantine Constantinople / Robert Ousterhout -- Magnificence and the necessity of luxury in Byzantium / Anthony Cutler -- Daily life in Byzantine Constantinople / Brigitte Pitarakis -- Ecclesiastical objects in Byzantine Constantinople / Brigitte Pitarakis -- Death in Byzantine society / Engin Akyürek -- The end of the 'Queen of the cities'. Constantinople on the eve of the Ottoman conquest / Nevra Necipoğlu -- III. Kostantiniyye: capital of the Ottoman Empire. Institutions and practices in the Ottoman city. From Byzantine Constantinople to Kostantiniyye: creation of a cosmopolitan capital and visual culture under Sultan Mehmed II / Gülru Necipoğlu -- From Anatolia to Istanbul and back again: travelers and sojourners in mid-sixteenth-century Üsküdar / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Religious and mystic life in Istanbul during the Byzantine and Ottoman eras / M. Baha Tanman -- Arts and images in Istanbul. Istanbul in the 18th century: days of reconciliation and consolidation / Tülay Artan -- Ottoman images of Istanbul in the age of empire: the view from heavens, the view from the street / Çiğdem Kafescioğlu -- Istanbul through western eyes / Zeynep İnankur -- The Ottoman capital in the nineteenth century / Semra Germaner -- Introduction to Istanbul music / Ersu Pekin. |
| Corporate name |
Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 406 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 413 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 439 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 447 |
| Art, Byzantine -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Exhibitions |
| Art, Ottoman -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Exhibitions |
| Islamic art -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Exhibitions |
| Byzantine antiquities -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Exhibitions |
| Islamic antiquities -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Exhibitions |
| Istanbul (Turkey) -- History |
| Added name(s) |
Arslaner, Hüma |
| Anadol, Çağatay |
