>> Exhibition: In Praise of God: Anatolian Rugs in Transylvanian Churches, 1500-1750
Sakip Sabanci Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul
19 April to 19 August 2007
http://www.textile-art.com/artc/artc.html
>> ANTIQUE OTTOMAN RUGS IN TRANSYLVANIA
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second edition: a new, revised and expanded edition launched on the occasion of ICOC 2007.
Edited by Stefano Ionescu
Text: Alberto Boralevi, Stefano Ionescu, Andrei Kertesz
Transylvania continues to be the repository of the richest and best preserved corpus of Turkish carpets outside the Islamic world.
Almost 400 examples attributable to the golden period of Ottoman weaving from the mid 15th to the end of the 18th century survived here including most of the classical groups such as Ghirlandaio, Holbein, Ushak, Lotto, Selendi, Transylvanian, Kula and Ghiordes.
Attempts to explain the presence of so many Ottoman rugs in the Lutheran Churches of the Saxon community in Transylvania have so far resulted in theories that range from the incomplete to the eccentric.
The book begins with an overview of the relevant carpet literature, which for generations of scholars and rug enthusiasts was dominated by Emil Schmutzler's monumental study Altorientalische Teppiche in Siebenbürgen, published in 1933.
This is followed by a succinct account of Transylvania's turbulent history, leading to an examination of the trade in Ottoman rugs and the ways in which such rugs were used and valued.
Colour images of more than 250 rugs, drawn from all the Transylvanian collections, are published together with technical analyses. The famous collection of the Black Church in Brasov is published in its entirety for the first time. Museum rug collections from Transylvania, as well as from Bucharest, are discussed with many additional illustrations.
The appendices include biographical essays on Emil Schmutzler and Teodor Tuduc, translations of the inscriptions on rugs, listings of rug locations and of all published rugs by collection, technical analyses, a discussion of Oriental rugs in Moldavia and Valacchia and an extensive bibliography.
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>> Die Osmanischen Teppiche in Siebenbürgen
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| The German version of the book is available - Download
the brochure
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>> Exhibition: Ottoman rugs in Transylvania at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin
27 October 2006 - 7 January 2007
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| Download
the flyer of the exhibition
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>> Remembering Ferenc Batári
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| The First Ottoman Turkish Carpet Exhibition in the Western World (HALI 131) - Download
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>> Exhibition of Anatolian rugs in Rome, April 2005
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Markus Voigt
reports
Download the overview: (English)
(Italian)
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>> HALI 139: see the review of Antique Ottoman Rugs in Transylvania by M. Franses
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Download the review
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>> HALI 137: see the article Transylvanian Tale by Stefano Ionescu
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Download the article
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>> Tour Reports on HALI.COM
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October 2004: rug-tour to Budapest. See report
April 2004: rug-tour to Transylvania. Marilyn R. Wolf reports
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