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It was in the late 19th century that the first modern scholarly attempts to define historic Ottoman architecture as a distinctive style or tradition were undertaken. The first work to do so was the Uṣūl-i Mi'marī-i Osmānī ("Fundamentals of Ottoman Architecture"), published in 1873 simultaneously in Ottoman Turkish, French, and German. [139]
Other commercial building types that appeared in the late 19th century included hotels and banks. [182] The Sirkeci Railway Station in Istanbul (1888–1890), designed in Orientalist style [180] A local interpretation of Orientalist fashion steadily arose in the late 19th century, initially used by European architects such as Vallaury. This ...
By the 19th century, European-style motifs were directly incorporated into Ottoman decoration and European techniques such as trompe-l'œil were introduced. Compared to earlier Seljuk decoration, stone carving occupied a more subtle role in Ottoman architecture.
The Ottoman Baroque style was also very visible in the empire and it was historically influential in shaping Westerners' conceptions of what Ottoman architecture looked like, particularly during the Romanticist movement of the 19th century. [178]
After the 17th century, Ottoman architecture was increasingly open to outside influences. Shifts during the Tulip Period were followed by the appearance of the Ottoman Baroque style in the 1740s. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] In the 19th century, Western European influences increased and architects such as the Balyans produced eclectic works like the luxurious ...
19th-century architecture in the Middle East (1 C) ... Pages in category "Ottoman architecture" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The "Moorish" garden structures built at Sheringham Park in Norfolk, ca. 1812, were an unusual touch at the time, a parallel to chinoiserie, as a dream vision of fanciful whimsy, not meant to be taken seriously; however, as early as 1826, Edward Blore used Islamic arches, domes of various size and shapes and other details of Near Eastern Islamic architecture to great effect in his design for ...
In the 19th century, under the de facto independent rule of Muhammad Ali and his successors, Ottoman Baroque and contemporary late Ottoman Westernizing decoration was conspicuously employed in new buildings, including the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, built between 1830 and 1848 in the Citadel.