VISUAL COSMOPOLITANISM AND CREATIVE TRANSLATION: ARTISTIC CONVERSATIONS WITH RENAISSANCE ITALY IN MEHMED II’S CONSTANTINOPLE

The conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II engendered transcultural exchanges and triggered competing projects for the renewal of the Roman Empire through the reuniting of Rome with Constantinople, the “New Rome.” These projects, promoted by successive popes of Rome and by the sultan of Constantino...

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Main Author: Necipoğlu, Gülru 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2012
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2012, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-81
Further subjects:B visual cosmopolitanism Italian Renaissance portraiture Roman imperial heritage Trojan lineage Constantinople-Istanbul artistic hybridity global ambitions East-West artistic exchange emulation of Alexander creative translation
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