EAN: 9780253066923

PORTRAITS OF EMPIRES - ROBYN DORA RADWAY KARTON...

In the late 16th century  hundreds of travelers made their way to the Habsburg ambassador's
residence  known as the German House  in Constantinople. In this centrally located inn 
subjects of the emperor found food  wine  shelter  and good company-and left an incredible
collection of albums filled with images  messages  decorated papers  and more. Portraits of
Empires offers a complete account of this early form of social media  which had a profound
impact on later European iconography. Revealing a vibrant transimperial culture as viewed from
all walks of life-Muslim and Christian  noble and servant  scholar and stable boy-the
pocket-sized albums containing these curiosities have never been fully connected to the
abundant archival records on the German House and its residents. Robyn Dora Radway not only
introduces these objects  the people who filled their pages  and the house at the center of
their creation  but she also presents several arguments regarding chronologies of exchange 
workshop practices  the curation of social networks and visual collections based on status  and
the purposes of these highly individualized material portraits. Featuring 162 fascinating color
images  Portraits of Empires reconstructs the world of Habsburg subjects living in Ottoman
Constantinople  using a rich and distinctive set of objects to raise questions about imperial
belonging and the artistic practices used to articulate it--

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