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eBook
Portraits of Empires
2023
Overview
In the late 16th century, hundreds of travelers made
their way to the Habsburg ambassador's residence, known as the
German House, in Constantinople. In this centrally located inn,
subjects of the emperor found food, wine, shelter, and good
company-and left an incredible collection of albums filled with
images, messages, decorated papers, and more.
Portraits of Empires offers a complete account of this
early form of social media, which had a profound impact on later
European iconography. Revealing a vibrant transimperial culture as
viewed from all walks of life-Muslim and Christian, noble and
servant, scholar and stable boy-the pocket-sized albums containing
these curiosities have never been fully connected to the abundant
archival records on the German House and its residents. Robyn Dora
Radway not only introduces these objects, the people who filled
their pages, and the house at the center of their creation, but she
also presents several arguments regarding chronologies of exchange,
workshop practices, the curation of social networks and visual
collections based on status, and the purposes of these highly
individualized material portraits.
Featuring 162 fascinating color images, Portraits of
Empires reconstructs the world of Habsburg subjects living in
Ottoman Constantinople using a rich and distinctive set of objects
to raise questions about imperial belonging and the artistic
practices used to articulate it.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
Albums-Turkey-Istanbul-History-16th century
/ Ambassadors-Dwellings-Turkey-Istanbul-History-16th century
/ Autograph albums-Turkey-Istanbul-History-16th century
/ Cultural
/ HISTORY
/ Holy Roman Empire-Foreign relations-Turkey
/ Holy Roman Empire-History-16th century
/ Istanbul (Turkey)-Social life and customs-16th century-Sources
/ Travelers-Europe-History-16th century
ISBN
9780253066916, 0253066913, 0253066948, 9780253066947, 0253066921, 025306693X, 9780253066930, 9780253066923
