The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album-Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul,

In The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and Art Album-Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul Fetvacı makes available a dazzling album––the album Ahmed I (Topkapı Palace Museum Library, B. 408)––to broad audience, provides first comprehensive study this work. Compiled by courtier Kalender Paşa (d. 1616), is striking gathering variety materials, including calligraphy, painting print, joined together artfully handiwork himself. This remarkable many ways. Diverse samples painting, calligraphy are put through fine paper joinery skills Paşa, for which he was well-known. The
 compiler has also composed seven-page preface discusses edifi- catory sensorial aspects album. I, while making references to older albums palace library, diverges from these unified visual idiom include variety––both non-Ottoman non-courtly works find their place I. So aptly formulated Fetvacı, broader implications as well Ottoman art. At point when Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal dynasties were each using art, architecture, ceremonial craft distinct imperial iden- tities, its eclecticism––an element that thus far deterred scholars tackle work fully––, speaks connectedness early modern world, at same time relating new ways experiencing art consumers