Presenting Vaṣṣāl Kalender’s Works: The Prefaces of Three Ottoman Albums

Kalender Pasha (d. 1616), an Ottoman artist-cum-statesman, was a renowned paper joiner (vaṣṣāl). He assembled two albums and compiled a Falnāma (Book of Omens) for Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603–17). Among these, only one of the albums consisted of calligraphies and images provided by the sultan himself, w...

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Main Author: Bağçı, Serpil 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2014, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 255-313
Further subjects:B Ottoman Painting Safavid painting calligraphy the arts of the book album making album prefaces art history texts paper-joining Kalender Pasha Ahmed I book design art collecting
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)