Kanunî Sultan Süleyman’ın genç yaşta vefat eden oğlu Şehzâde Mehmed için inşa ettirdiği Külliyesi, bir şehzâde mimari âdâb kodlarının aşıldığı örneklerden biridir. Söz konusu külliyenin asıl var olma nedeni ise Türbesi’dir.
 Türbesi’nin tezyinatında kullanılan süsleme tekniklerinin, malzemelerin ve yazı programına seçilen âyetlerin belirli program dâhilinde düzenlendiği anlaşılmaktadır. Tü...

THE MALTESE ISLANDS fell under the rule of Rome in 216 B.C. With the division of the Roman Empire in A.D. 395, the Maltese archipelago is believed to have formed part of the Eastern or Byzantine Empire. Christianity was introduced into Malta in A.D. 60. As Roman law prohibited the interment of the dead inside the towns, the earliest Maltese Christian cemeteries were established outside the wall...

Abstract The tomb of the Burgundian duke Philip Bold in Dijon, designed by Haarlem-born sculptor Claus Sluter, holds a key position development Western funerary art, especially on account lively and moving depiction cortège weepers around tomb. In this monument it is they who provide an example to their beholders – namely, how mourn deceased ruler. Not only do these expressive statuettes encour...

What is the relationship between computer games and cinema? Spin-off games based on major fi lm franchises are common, especially in genres such as science fi ction, action-adventure and horror. Some games have also made the transition to the big screen, none more prominently than the Tomb Raider series in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). The potential benefi ts of such tieins are apparent at th...

When an urban development is planned the cartography of this territory is necessary, in the same way before starting a project to rehabilitate a monument the graphic information about it has to be available. At present, different techniques are available which allow to obtain three-dimensional models with a different accuracy level and runtimes. This paper shows the work carried out to obtain t...

This article presents the evaluation of the digital resources for the Nebamun Gallery at the British Museum in the context of other display elements. The gallery exhibits eleven beautiful paintings from the ancient Egyptian tomb-chapel of Nebamun together with 180 objects and a computer simulation of the funerary chapel. The evaluation programme was designed drawing from the concepts and method...