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Lecture April 1, 2010 (19:00)  Hans Theunissen (Leiden University): Ottoman Tile Culture in the 18th Century: the Dutch Connection Abstract In the 16th and 17th century Iznik and Kütahya dominated Ottoman tile culture, not in the least because of large scale court patronage. Although in the 18th century Ottoman interest in tiles as a form of architectural decoration remained, the demise of Iznik led to a completely new situation. In the first half of the 18th century the court tried to revive Ottoman tile production in Tekfursarayı (Istanbul) and for some time during the same period Kütahya played a role as producer of mainly blue-and-white tiles. However, already in the 1740s the Ottoman court started to import tiles from Europe. An important part of these tiles were blue-and-white and purple-and-white tiles from various production centers in The Netherlands such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam, but usually called Delft tiles. This presentation aims at throwing some light on 18th-century Ottoman tile culture in general and the place of Dutch tiles in this culture. Özet 16 ve 17. yüzyıllarda Osmanlı çini kültürü büyük çaplı saray patronajına bağlı olmayan bir şekilde İznik ve Kütahya’nın egemenliği altında kalmıştır. 18. yüzyılda Osmanlı’nın çinilere bir mimari süseme şekli olarak ilgisi devam etse de, İznik’in düşüşe tamamen yeni bir durumun ortaya çıkmasına sebep olmuştur. 18. yüzyılın ilk yarısında Osmanlı çini üretimi İstanbul’daki Tekfur Sarayı’nda canlandırılmaya çalışılmış ve aynı dönemde Kütahya bir süre özellikle mavi-beyaz çinilerin üreticisi olmuştur. Bununla birlikte, Osmanlı sarayı daha 1740’larda Avrupa’dan çini ithal etmeye başlamıştır. Bu çinilerin önemli bir bölümü Amsterdam ve Rotterdam gibi Hollanda’daki çeşitli üretim merkezlerinden gelen fakat çoğunlukla Delft çinileri olarak bilinen mavi-beyaz ve mor-beyaz çinilerdir. Bu sunum 18. yüzyıl Osmanlı çini kültürüne ve Hollanda çinilerinin bu kültür içindeki yerine ışık tutmayı amaçlamaktadır.

Previous activities 2010 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) 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 >>>