Medieval Work-in-Progress seminar

14th-Century Anatolian Gothic: Thriller or Horror Story?

This talk will examine some examples of Gothic and Gothicising architecture in 14th century Anatolia. Anatolia was largely in the hands of small to medium sized Turko-Islamic principalities, and Islamic architecture of the 14th century is not usually a place to look for the Gothic. But Anatolia was surrounded by Gothic buildings–in Venetian and Hospitaler controlled islands in the Aegean, and in Lusignan Cyprus. Reasons for this surprising trend will be examined, with attention focusing on one building, the Sungur Bey mosque in Niğde, which dates from the fourth decade of the 14th century.

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27 Apr 2016

The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London

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