Mary Roberts is Professor of Art History and Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of Sydney. Her books include Istanbul Exchanges. Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (University of California Press, 2015), awarded AAANZ’s Best Book Prize and translated into Turkish, and Intimate Outsiders. The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature (Duke University Press, 2007).
Ottoman Architecture is the first modern history of Ottoman architecture written by Ottomans themselves, yet it is little known outside the field of late Ottoman studies. This magnificently-illustrated volume codifies the empire’s architectural history into a series of preliminary stages culminating in the efflorescence of the Ottoman classical tradition in the sixteenth-century.