Art, Art History, and Film Faculty
Emine Fetvac谋
Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor in Islamic and Asian Art
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
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.