Gülru Necipoğlu
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Necipoğlu is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and [https://www.palladiomuseum.org Centro Internazionale di Studi di Archittettura Andrea Palladio] in Vicenza. She was an invited faculty scholar at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut (2013, 2014), and the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge (2013). Her prize-winning books are: ''The Arts of Ornamental Geometry'' (2017); ''The Age of Sinan'' (2005), ''The Topkapı Scroll'' (1996). Her books and numerous essays have appeared in English, Turkish, French, Spanish, Persian, and Arabic.
Necipoğlu specializes in premodern Islamic arts/architecture, especially the Mediterranean and Eastern Islamic lands. Her publications address aesthetic cosmopolitanism, transregional connectivity between early modern empires (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal), artistic exchanges with Byzantium and Renaissance Europe, plans, and drawings in pre-modern architectural practice, aesthetics of abstraction, and geometric ornament. Her critical interests encompass methodological and historiographical issues in modern constructions of the field of Islamic art and Orientalism. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 1993
Superior document: Ars orientalis 23
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Published: 2008
Superior document: Muqarnas 25
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Superior document: Treasures of knowledge an inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) volume 2
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Published: 2019
Superior document: Treasures of knowledge an inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) volume 1
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Published: 2019
Superior document: Studies and sources in Islamic art and architecture volume 14