Sinan: Architect of S�leyman the Magn, John Freely, New, Hardback

Thames & Hudson Ltd

A magnificent survey of Sinans buildings, including the greatest of Turkish mosques, the Sleymaniye and the Selimiye, complemented by authoritative texts\n\nSinan was the greatest architect of the Ottoman Golden Age in the 16th century. While Michelangelo was working on St. Peter's, Sinan completed the greatest of Turkish mosques, the Sleymaniye and the Selimiye. His style marks the apogee of Turkish art. Sinan designed hundreds of buildings: mosques, palaces, tombs, mausolea, hospitals, schools, caravanserai, bridges, aqueducts and baths. As he himself said, 'with time each edifice became - with the help of Allah and thanks to the generosity and benevolence of the State - the very image of the world in the lands ruled by the Ottoman dynasty.' In his greatest works he adapted Byzantine and Islamic styles to produce something quite new: a centralized organization of absolute space unhindered by pillars or columns and covered by a soaring dome. An architect of genius in a dynamic new e.