Sinan's Autobiographies - Five Sixteenth-Century Texts

The present volume contains critical editions of all five autobiographical accounts of the The sixteenth-century Ottoman architect Sinan, along with transcriptions, annotated translations, and facsimiles of the most important variant versions; an introductory essay that analyzes the various surviving manuscripts, reconstructs their histories, and establishes the relationships between them; and a preface that considers the sources, themes, and broader implications of the five autobiographies.

About the author

Howard Crane is Professor of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in the Department of History of Art at the Ohio State University.
Esra Akın holds a doctorate (2007) in History of Art from Ohio State University. She is the author of Mustafa Âli's Epic Deeds of Artists. A Critical Edition of the Earliest Ottoman Text about the Calligraphers and Painters of the Islamic World (Brill, 2011).
Gülru Necipoğlu is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

Product details

• Authors: Esra Akin, Howard Crane
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2006
• EAN: 9789004259638
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25963-8
• No. of pages: 658
• Dimensions: 208 mm x 269 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 1556 g
• Series: Muqarnas, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history