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Versions and visions of the Alhambra in the nineteenth-century Ottoman world
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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:53 authored by Anna McSweeneyThe Alhambra as a source of inspiration for Western architects in the nineteenth century is well known and has been thoroughly documented. But “Alhambresque” style was not just an Orientalist exoticism in the West. It was also used in Muslim contexts, where the style was considered suitable for public buildings—the entrance to the former Ministry of Defense building in Istanbul, for example—as well as for royal pavilions and palace interiors. In this article I explore the use of the Alhambresque style in non-western contexts in the nineteenth century, where the term came to mean something more than simply fashionable exoticism.
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West 86th: a Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material CultureISSN
2153-5531Publisher
University of Chicago PressExternal DOI
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22Page range
44-69Department affiliated with
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