COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_01898
Creator name:
Sinan
Creator dates:
ca. 1500-1588
Creator nationality:
Turkish
Title:
Ayasofya Hurrem Sultan Hamami, sign above door
View description:
full view
Date:
1556
Date type:
creation
Location:
Istanbul, Turkey
Style_Period:
16th Century
Style_Period name variant:
Sixteenth century
Style_Period:
Ottoman
Subject:
public baths
Subject:
bathing
Subject:
gifts
Subject:
communities (social groups)
Subject:
charity
Subject:
exterior views
Subject:
Signs and signboards
Subject:
calligraphy
Subject:
Arabic scripts
Culture:
Ottoman
Culture:
Turkish
Category:
Architecture and City Planning
Category:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Work_type:
public baths
Work_type:
signs (declatory or advertising artifacts)
Copy_Source:
digital image
Image_Source:
Walter Denny disk
Note:
built at the request of Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana), the wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century (1556-1557 AD). It was built where the ancient public baths of Zeuxippus (100-200 AD) used to stand, between the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia
Rights Reproduction & Access:
Copyrighted material--for educational use only
Filename:
WBD_01898.tif
