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- catalog abstract ""The scant number of drawings and the absence of any theoretical treatises on the architecture of the pre-Islamic world make the late fifteenth-century Timurid pattern scroll in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library an exceedingly valuable source of information. In the course of her analysis of the scroll, Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her comparison of the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art makes this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The text also has far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. The book reproduces the entire scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, along with illustrations showing the underlying geometries from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohahhad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the mugarnas and demonstrates how one of the scroll's patterns could be used to design a three-dimensional vault"-- Google Books.".
- catalog alternative "Geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture".
- catalog alternative "Muqarnas".
- catalog alternative "Topkapı Palace Museum Library MS H. 1956".
- catalog contributor b8468375.
- catalog contributor b8468376.
- catalog contributor b8468377.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""The scant number of drawings and the absence of any theoretical treatises on the architecture of the pre-Islamic world make the late fifteenth-century Timurid pattern scroll in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library an exceedingly valuable source of information. In the course of her analysis of the scroll, Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her comparison of the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art makes this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The text also has far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. The book reproduces the entire scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, along with illustrations showing the underlying geometries from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohahhad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the mugarnas and demonstrates how one of the scroll's patterns could be used to design a three-dimensional vault"-- Google Books.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-380) and index.".
- catalog description "The scroll tradition -- The discourse on the geometric "arabesque" -- The geographical, chronological horizons of the geometric mode -- Geometry and the contribution of mathematical sciences -- Geometry and aesthetic theory -- Pattern types and drawings in the Topkapı scroll -- The Topkapı scroll : a color reproduction -- The muqarnas : a geometric analysis / by Mohammad al-Asad.".
- catalog extent "xii, 395 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0892363355".
- catalog identifier "9780892363353".
- catalog isPartOf "Sketchbooks & albums".
- catalog isPartOf "Sketchbooks & albums.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Santa Monica, CA : Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities,".
- catalog spatial "Asia, Central".
- catalog spatial "Turkey Istanbul".
- catalog subject "720/.22/255 20".
- catalog subject "Arabesques Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Architectural drawing 16th century Asia, Central Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Architectural drawing Turkey Istanbul Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Architectural drawing, Timurid Catalogs.".
- catalog subject "Geometry in architecture.".
- catalog subject "Islamic architecture.".
- catalog subject "NA2706.A783 N43 1995".
- catalog subject "Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. Kütüphane. Manuscript. H. 1956 Catalogs.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The scroll tradition -- The discourse on the geometric "arabesque" -- The geographical, chronological horizons of the geometric mode -- Geometry and the contribution of mathematical sciences -- Geometry and aesthetic theory -- Pattern types and drawings in the Topkapı scroll -- The Topkapı scroll : a color reproduction -- The muqarnas : a geometric analysis / by Mohammad al-Asad.".
- catalog title "Geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture".
- catalog title "Muqarnas".
- catalog title "The Topkapı scroll : geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture : Topkapı Palace Museum Library MS H. 1956 / Gülru Necipoğlu ; with an essay on the geometry of the muqarnas by Mohammad al-Asad.".
- catalog title "Topkapı Palace Museum Library MS H. 1956".
- catalog type "text".