George Wheler and Jacob Spon in Levant: Narratives on Ottoman Architecture

Keskin M. Ç.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Travelers to the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires (12th-17th c.) Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Stephanos Yerasimos (1942-2005), Venice, İtalya, 15 - 17 Aralık 2023, ss.5

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Venice
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İtalya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.5
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The travelogues of George Wheler (d.1724), an English priest, and Jacob Spon (d.1685), a French archaeologist, who visited Greece and Western part of Asia Minor between 1675-1676 present remarkable observations and narratives on architecture. A fantastic anecdote Wheler and Spon quoted, based on a paranormal dream reveals the religious motivations behind the fashion of open-air tomb in Ottoman Architecture lasted from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century. The descriptions of Wheler and Spon who had the opportunity to enter the palace by bribing the guard, are also the most detailed sources about the New Palace built by Mehmed IV in Bursa.