Medieval Islamic Maps by Karen C. Pinto;

Author:Karen C. Pinto; [Pinto, Karen C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780226127019
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-06-23T00:00:00+00:00

Late Byzantine manuscript illumination provides another source of comparison for painting styles. Once again the parallels with the Ottoman cluster are notable: the rough and patchy painting technique and the choice of pale, dull pigments that set apart late Byzantine manuscript illustration from earlier Byzantine work (fig. 11.9). Like the maps of Aya Sofya 2971a and Aya Sofya 2613 (compare fig. 11.9 with figs. 4.5, 8.1, 11.4, and 11.6), Byzantine miniaturists employed flat opaque gouache washes in which dull blues and browns abound, with the occasional burst of red and purplish pink, and plenty of gold.19 In his article on Ottoman painting in the fifteenth century, Ernst Grube notes the structural similarities between early Ottoman miniature painting and Byzantine mural painting:

Yet in Ottoman Anatolia, an immediate contact with Byzantine painting, both in the form of manuscript illustration and of monumental painting, is of course to be expected, and it would appear from Ahmedi’s Iskandar-nama that Byzantine painting fascinated and inspired early Ottoman painters for their own work. It can be shown, I believe, that the contact with Byzantine painting in Anatolia was one of the major experiences for young Ottoman painters and that many of the elements that went into the making of the early Ottoman style can be traced back to suggestions offered by Byzantine painting, especially of the 14th century.20

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