Art, Art History, and Film Faculty

Emine Fetvac谋

Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor in Islamic and Asian Art

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Emine Fetvac谋

Ph.D.

Contact

Devlin Hall 430

Telephone: 617-552-4531

Email: emine.fetvaci@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Williams College
  • Ph.D., Harvard University

Courses

Intro to Islamic Art & Architecture

Imperial Reflections: Early Modern Islamic Art & Architecture

After Genghis Khan: Art & Architecture in Iran & Central Asia

Great Cities of Islam: Istanbul

Islamic Book听

Research Interests

Islamic art & architecture

Painting & arts of the book

Ottoman, Safavid & Mughal art & architecture

Collecting

Artistic patronage & identity

Early-modern courtly societies

Formation of art historical canons

Profile

Professor Fetvac谋鈥檚 research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal and Safavid art and architecture. Her courses cover a wide range from medieval Iran and Central Asia to the early-modern Mediterranean, and focus on painting and portable arts as well as architecture. Her first book,听Picturing History at the Ottoman Court听(Indiana University Press, 2013), was awarded the 2014 M. Fuat K枚pr眉l眉 Book Prize by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. Her latest monograph, The Album of the听World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and Album Making at the Ottoman Court听(Princeton University Press, 2019), focuses on an imperial album created for the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603-1617), and examines the art and architecture produced during the sultan鈥檚 reign. The Album of the听World Emperor has been nominated for the 2021 Charles Rufus Morey Award of the College Art Association. Her most recent project examines artistic connections between the Ottoman and Mughal Empires. Fetvac谋 is also the editor, with Erdem 脟ipa, of听Writing History at the Ottoman Court听(IUP, 2013). Her first book and the co-edited volume have both been translated into Turkish. Among other venues, her articles have appeared in the听Art Bulletin,听Ars Orientalis, and听Muqarnas. She has held a Stanford University Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship as well as been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul (Princeton University Press, 2019).

Nusretname: Bir Gazaname Yazmas谋n谋n Sultani Ihti艧am谋/Nusretname: Imperial Magnificence in a Gazaname Manuscript (MAS Matbaa ve Yay谋nc谋l谋k, Istanbul, in production).

Osmanl谋 Saray谋nda Tarih Yaz谋m谋 (Turkish translation of Writing History at the Ottoman Court, Tarih Vakf谋 Yurt Yay谋nlar谋, Istanbul, 2014).

Picturing History at the Ottoman Court (Indiana University Press, 2013).

Saray谋n 陌mgeleri: Osmanl谋 Saray谋n谋n G枚z眉yle Resimli Tarih (Turkish translation of Picturing History at the Ottoman Court, Yap谋 Kredi Publications, Istanbul, 2013).

Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future, co-edited with Erdem 脟谋pa (Indiana University Press, 2013).

Articles and Book Chapters

听鈥淰isualizing Urban Festivals in the Ottoman Empire: A Comparison of the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries,鈥� in Lauren Cannady and Jennifer Ferng, eds. Crafting Artisanal Praxis: Networks of Power in the Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, forthcoming June 2021)

鈥淐ourtly Spaces: Visual and Material Culture,鈥� in 脟i千dem Kafes莽io千lu and Shirine Hamadeh, eds., Brill Companion to Early-Modern Istanbul (Brill, forthcoming 2021).

"The album of Mehmed III: An Inquiry into Genre," in Serpil Ba千c谋 and Asl谋han Erkmen eds., Prof. Dr. Zeren Tan谋nd谋 Arma千an谋: 陌slam D眉nyas谋nda Kitap K眉lt眉r眉 ve Sanat谋 (Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Zeren Tan谋nd谋: Arts and Culture of the Book in the Islamic World), in production, forthcoming 2021.

鈥淟a Jet茅e and the Illustrated Ottoman History: an Inquiry into Word, Image, and Audience,鈥� forthcoming in A Festschrift for Cemal Kafadar, ed. Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Rachel Goshgarian and Ali Yayc谋o千lu, forthcoming 2021.

听鈥淧ersian Aesthetics in Ottoman Albums,鈥� 402-412 in Sabine Schmidtke, ed., Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935-2018 (Gorgias Press, 2018).

"Painting, From Royal to Urban Patronage" (with Christiane Gruber), in G眉lru Necipo千lu and Finbarr Barry Flood, eds. A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017).

鈥淥ttoman Author Portraits in the Early-Modern Period,鈥� in Emotions and Subjectivity in the Early-Modern Islamic World, ed. Kishwar Rizvi (Brill, 2017)

"The Gaze in the Album of Ahmed I," Muqarnas 32 (2015): 135-154.

"From Print to Trace: An Ottoman Imperial Portrait Book and Its Western-European models," Art Bulletin, vol. 95, no. 2 (June 2013): 243-268.

"Others and Other Geographies in the 艦ehn膩me-i Sel墨m 岣乶," The Journal of Ottoman Studies vol. 40 (2012): 81-100.

"The Album of Ahmed I" Ars Orientalis, vol. 42 (2012): 127-138.

鈥淓nriched Narratives and Empowered Images in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Manuscripts,鈥� Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011): 243-266.

"The Art of Osman Hamdi Bey," (expanded) in Renata Holod and Robert Ousterhout, eds., Osman Hamdi Bey and the Americans: Archaeology, Diplomacy, Art (Pera Museum Publications: Istanbul, 2011).

听鈥淟ove in the Album of Ahmed I,鈥� Journal of Turkish Studies 34/II (Fall 2010): 37-51.

听鈥淭he Production of the 艦ehn膩me-i Sel墨m 岣乶,鈥� Muqarnas 26 (2009): 263-315.

鈥淭he Grand and the Terrible: European Visions of Ottomans,鈥� in James Clifton, ed., The Plains of Mars: European War Prints, 1500-1825, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation (New Haven and Houston: Yale University Press and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2009).

鈥淢usic, Light and Flowers: The Changing Aesthetics of Ottoman Architecture,鈥� Journal of Turkish Studies 32/I (Fall 2008): 221-240.

听鈥淭he Office of Ottoman Court Historian,鈥� in Robert Ousterhout, ed., Studies on Istanbul and Beyond: The Freely Papers, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2007).

Digital Publications

Ottoman History Podcast: 鈥溾�� Hosted by Emily Neumeier and Nir Shafir, January 2016.

鈥淭he Art of Osman Hamdi Bey,鈥� in Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman Lands: An Exhibtion at Penn Museum (www. Ottomanlands.com), October 2010.

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