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Twelfth IESHR Lecture
Date: 20th December 2018
Venue: Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Lecture on Cosmopolitan Aesthetics of Empire: Arts, Politics and Commerce in the Construction of Sultan Suleyman's Magnificence
About the Lecture
A perspective of Sultan Süleyman’s (r. 1520-1566) empire, viewed from the lens of visual material presents a rather different picture from that of official Ottoman written sources, enabling readings that are not explicitly stated in texts. The lecture explores this proposition by focusing on the less familiar first half of the sultan’s reign, when expansion into Central Europe and Italy constituted the main priority.
Gülru Necipoğlu, the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University's Department of History of Art and Architecture, delivered the Tenth IESHR Lecture on Cosmopolitan Aesthetics of Empire: Arts, Politics and Commerce in the Construction of Sultan Suleyman's Magnificence |