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Lecture: How the double Dutch hyacinth conquered the Ottoman Empire, Hans Theunissen (Leiden University), March 28, 2011, 18.00 Abstract In the second half of the 16th century Ottoman tulips and hyacinths reached Europe. In the 17th century the tulip became immensely popular in the Netherlands resulting in the infamous Tulip Mania of the 1630s. Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries the originally Ottoman hyacinth led a relatively inconspicuous life in Holland. It never reached the cult status of the tulip. However, this was all to change at the end of the 17th century when Dutch growers started to produce double hyacinths. In the 1720s and 1730s this new double Dutch hyacinth became --throughout Europe-- as popular as the tulip one century before. In the 1730s the double hyacinth also reached the Ottoman Empire and it was the Dutch who played an important role in this introduction. The introduction of the double hyacinth in the 1730s also had its consequences for Ottoman art in which from that time onwards originally Dutch double hyacinths played an important role as an ornament in the Ottoman baroque-rococo style. This presentation maps the intriguing journey of the single hyacinth as a flower from the Ottoman Empire to the Netherlands, its return from Holland to the Ottoman Empire as a double hyacinth in the 18th century and the influence this new flower had on Ottoman art. Özet 16. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında Osmanlı laleleri ve sümbülleri Avrupa’ya ulaşmıştır. 17. yüzyılda lalenin Hollanda’daki popülerliği 1630’lu yılların ünlü Lale Çılgınlığı’na sebep olmuştur. 16. ve 17. yüzyıllar boyunca aslen Osmanlı olan sümbül Hollanda’da nispeten göze çarpmayan bir hayat sürmüş, hiçbir zaman lalenin kült konumuna ulaşamamıştır. Fakat bu durum 17. yüzyıl sonlarında Hollandalı yetiştiricilerin çifte sümbül üretmeye başlaması ile değişmiştir. 1720 ve 1730’lu yıllarda bu yeni Hollanda sümbülü tüm Avrupa’da bir önceki yüzyıldaki lale kadar popüler bir hale gelmiştir. Çifte sümbül 1730’lu yıllarda Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’na da ulaşmış ve bu tanıtımda Hollandalılar önemli bir rol oynamıştır. Bu yıllarda çifte sümbülün Osmanlı’ya gelişinin sanat üzerinde de etkileri olmuş, bu dönemden itibaren Hollanda çifte sümbülü Osmanlı barok-rokoko üsluplarında önemli bir motif olarak kullanılmıştır. Bu sunumda, tekli sümbülün Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’ndan Hollanda’ya yaptığı merak uyandıran yolculuk, 18. yüzyılda çifte sümbül olarak imparatorluğa geri dönüşü ve bu yeni çiçeğin Osmanlı sanatı üzerinde yaptığı etki ele alınacaktır.

Previous activities 2011 Lecture: "Pera Exists No More!" The Great Fire of Istanbul's Diplomatic Quarter, August 2, 1831, Steven Richmond, February 18, 2011 (more information) Lecture: Centuries of Gold. Relations between the Netherlands and Constantinople in the Early Middle Ages, by Annemarieke Willemsen, January 24, 2011 (more information) 2010 Symposium: Conservation and Creativity: Comparative experiences of creativity for the conservation of Istanbul's World Heritage Sites, December 21-22, 2010 (more information) Lecture: Correspondence between the Prince and the Pasha: Diplomatic and Personal letters between Halil Pasha and Prince Maurits of Netherlands, by Mehmet Tütüncü, December 15, 2010 (more information) Symposium: When women enter the public space... Men and families in women's architectural heritage in East and West, November 25-26 (more information) Lecture: From Roman Authepsa to Russian Samovar: Anatolian Crossroads, Chinese Tea, Dutch and British Commerce by Prof. Dr. Aleksandr K. Gavrilov (St. Petersburg University), November 8, 2010 (more information) Lecture: Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet. Women in Proverbs from Around the World by Mineke Schipper, October 25, 2010 (more information) Lecture: Luxury, Power Strategies and the Question of Corruption. Gifting in the Ottoman Elite (16th-18th Centuries) Hedda Reindl-Kiel, October 20, 2010 00 (more information) Symposium: Fourth International Conference on Jewish Italian Literature (ICOJIL 4): Jewish migration: voices of the Diaspora  June 23-25, 2010 (more information) International Workshop: History of Labour Relations,with IISG Amsterdam June 18-19, 2010 PhD Course: Istanbul, city of contrasts. Cultural transfer between Europe and Turkey with Huizinga-Instituut Amsterdam  May 30-June 6, 2010 Lecture Cornelis de Bruijn (1652-1727) and the Rediscovery of Persepolis  Jan Willem Drijvers (Groningen University) May 4, 2010 (more information) Literary Evening Voices from the Beyond. An Evening of Turkish and Dutch Poetry May 3, 2010 (more information) Europa Nostra Experience sharing meetings of NGOs-The Netherlands April 9, 2010 (more information) Lecture  Ottoman Tile Culture in the 18th Century: the Dutch Connection  Hans Theunissen (Leiden University) 1 April 2010 (more information) Lecture Dutch travel accounts on the Ottoman Empire 1590-1800 Jan Schmidt (Leiden University) 5 March 2010 (more information) Lecture Qala’at Halwanji — a 4000 year old fortress in Syria Jesper Eidem (NINO) 18 February 2010 (more information) Masterclass on Archaeobotany with Prof. René Cappers 15-26 February 2010 Lecture Doing research on Ottoman women and the International Women's Movement or, how to turn into an armchair scholar Nicole van Os (Leiden University) 10 February 2010 (more information) 2009 Symposium Connections in Past and present. Istanbul Graduate Symposium on Archaeology, 19 December, 2009 (more information) Symposium Museums and Display. Stories in a showcase  13-14 November, 2009 (more information) Seminars Archaeobotany Seminars at NIT with René Cappers 6, 7, 8 October, 2009 (more information) Masterclasses New Approaches in Archaeobotany 5-9 October 2009  (read more) Fifth Workshop of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations International Institute of Social History (IISG) with NIT 25-26 September 2009 Symposium Ottoman Biographical Sources I: The Sixteenth Century Ottoman Biographer Aşık Çelebi and His Work June 19, 2009  (more information) Lecture Experimentalism in Turkish literature: Adalet Ağaoğlu's YazSonu Petra de Bruijn (Leiden University) June 11, 2009 (more information) Lecture The 2nd Neolithic Revolution in Asia Minor: Evaluating Possible Causes Bleda S. Düring (Leiden University) May 21, 2009 (more information) Lecture Fritz Rudolf Kraus in Istanbul (1937-1949) and the development of Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Turkey Jan Schmidt (Leiden University), May 11, 2009  (more information) Lecture Depraved Borderlands - Love Affairs Between Muslims and non-Muslims in Dutch Literature from the Middle Ages until today Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar (Groningen University), May 6, 2009 (more information) Lecture On clocks and dreams: the novel Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü [Time Regulation Institute] by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Hanneke van der Heijden (translator), April 6, 2009 (more information) 2nd Workshop on Neolithic Anatolia 2-3 March 2009 at Istanbul University  The Neolithic Period in Western Anatolia and Thrace: Attempt for Sharing Information and Constructing a Chronology  Organizing institutions: Department of Prehistory of Istanbul University - Department of Archaeology of Aegean University - Netherlands Institute in Turkey Lecture Empires, Cities, Sanctuaries. Imperial Patronage of Sanctuaries in Asia Minor and beyond, ca. 550 BCE-950 CE Rolf Strootman January 28, 2009 (more information)   2008 >>> 2007 >>> 2006 >>>