Arap Camii in Istanbul : Its Architecture and Frescoes

Ceti̇nkaya, Haluk

doi:10.3406/anata.2010.1309

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“…For the Dominican Church of Saint Paul, while the history of the building goes back to the sixth century, the Genoese church was built in the 1330s and converted into a mosque under Ottoman rule in the fifteenth century. 46 Later interventions make the building difficult to read, but it still bears some of its original features. The fourteenth-century masonry character of the building has been identified as two courses of stone and three courses of brick.…”

Section: Analysis Of Building Techniques and Materials In The Walls O...mentioning

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A Reappraisal of the Genoese Walls of Galata (Fourteenth–Fifteenth Centuries) in Terms of Medieval Building Techniques and Masonry Traditions

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Serin

2023

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While a number of fortifications have been attributed to the Genoese in Anatolia, the Walls of Galata are the only fortifications built entirely by them. Although the term "Genoese castle" is commonly used for most of these fortresses, even those without any trace of Genoese history, what is meant by "Genoese" architecture has not yet been fully identified or defined. This article investigates medieval building techniques and masonry traditions that the Genoese might have employed in their architectural practice. For this purpose, a comprehensive inventory of the surviving parts of the Walls of Galata to date has been created, and the building techniques of the surviving sections are investigated in detail. These techniques are analyzed through a comparison of other buildings in Galata and Genoa built by the Genoese and the Palaiologan buildings in Constantinople/Istanbul. Next, other "Genoese" fortresses in Anatolia and eastern Thrace and their building techniques and materials are similarly evaluated in the late Byzantine context. This research reveals that the Genoese essentially (re)used available building materials, adopting the building techniques and masonry traditions of the Palaiologan architecture in association with a collaboration with Byzantine masons. It concludes that the Genoese most likely introduced the use of pointed arches to Byzantine masons in Constantinople, and that the Walls of Galata are one of the earliest monuments in Istanbul where pointed arches were used.

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Section: Analysis Of Building Techniques and Materials In The Walls O...mentioning

confidence: 99%