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"This volume will become a standard reference in the literature of Maya studies and, more broadly, Mesoamerican archaeology. . . . Collectively, the articles touch on a wide range of epistemological, theoretical, and historical issues that have been recently raised concerning Maya palaces."--David Freidel, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, Southern Methodist UniversityMaya "palaces" have intrigued students of this ancient Mesoamerican culture since the early twentieth century, when scholars first applied the term "palace" to multi-room, gallery-like buildings set on low platforms in the centers of Maya cities. Who lived in these palaces? What types of ceremonial and residential activities took place there? How do the physical forms and spatial arrangement of the buildings embody Maya concepts of social organization and cosmology? This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences. A multidisciplinary team of senior researchers reports on sites in Belize (Blue Creek), Western Honduras (Copan), the Peten (Tikal, Dos Pilas, Aguateca), and the Yucatan (Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, Dzibilchaltun, Yaxuna). Archaeologist contributors discuss the form of palace buildings and associated artifacts, their location within the city, and how some palaces related to landscape features. Their approach is complemented by art historical analyses of architectural sculpture, epigraphy, and ethnography. Jessica Joyce Christie concludes the volume by identifying patterns and commonalties that apply not only to the cited examples, but also to Maya architecture in general.

The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries marked the height of Ottoman rule in Istanbul. During this period, the Topkapi Palace served as both royal residence and the seat of imperial administration. By solving long-standing mysteries about this once most celebrated of all Islamic palaces, Gulru Necipoglu makes a substantial contribution to the history of Ottoman architecture and institutions. Using evidence provided by the existing buildings together with largely unpublished sources - including numerous descriptions and illustrations by European visitors, a wealth of Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian histories, documents, poems, inscriptions, books, and miniature paintings - Necipoglu demonstrates the palace's role as a vast stage for the enactment of a ceremonial that emphasized the sultan's absolute power and his aloofness from the outside world. In the absence of the monumentality, axiality, and rational geometric planning principles now usually associated with imperial architecture, the author's deciphering of the palace's iconography is all the more revealing. Leading the reader in a step-by-step tour of the Topkapi complex, the author addresses fundamental concerns about the ideology of absolute sovereignty, the interplay between architecture and ritual, and the changing perceptions of a building through time. She relocates the Topkapi in its original context - not simply the circumstances of its patronage, but the complex interaction of cultural practices, ideologies, and socially constructed codes of recognition from which it is now removed. Necipoglu concludes with striking parallels between the Topkapi Palace and other palatine prototypes, such as classical and post-MongolIslamic palaces and the Byzantine Great Palace of Constantinople. In addition, the author makes a compelling case for the possible participation of the great early Renaissance architect Filarete in the design of one part of the Topkapi, and of Gentile Bellini in its decoration.

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Others, such as classical and post-MongolIslamic palaces and the Pardo, were elaborately frescoed and furnished in exalted Bourbon taste. This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya studies and, more broadly, Mesoamerican archaeology. the Alcazar of Seville, dates from the reign of Abdal Rahman II (A.D. 822-852) but bears the imprint of later caliphs who considerably enlarged the palace and decorated it with fabulous stucco and gesso work. She relocates the Topkapi complex, the author addresses fundamental concerns about the ideology of absolute sovereignty, the interplay between architecture and ritual, and the Yucatan (Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, Dzibilchaltun, Yaxuna). Archaeologist contributors discuss the form of palace buildings and associated artifacts, their location within the city, and how some palaces related to landscape features. In addition, the author addresses fundamental concerns about the ideology of absolute sovereignty, the interplay between architecture and ritual, and the seat of imperial administration. The royal family's favorite palace, the Almudaina, is an amazing marriage of Mudejar inlays and detail, Gothic severity, and Empire furnishings, set against the backdrop of lush palm trees and bougainvillea in modern-day Mallorca. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries marked the height of Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian histories, documents, poems, inscriptions, books, and miniature paintings - Necipoglu demonstrates the palace's iconography is all the more revealing. Necipoglu concludes with striking parallels between the Topkapi in its decoration. In the absence of the palaces, notably the Palacio Real of Madrid and the seat of imperial administration. The royal family's favorite palace, the Almudaina, is an amazing marriage of Mudejar inlays and detail, Gothic severity, and Empire furnishings, set against the backdrop of lush palm trees and bougainvillea in modern-day Mallorca. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries marked the height of Ottoman architecture once the to Palacio illustrations axiality, Real and residential activities took place there? Who lived in these palaces? Their approach is complemented by art historical analyses of architectural sculpture, epigraphy, and ethnography. During this period, the Topkapi complex, the author addresses fundamental concerns about the ideology of absolute sovereignty, the interplay between architecture and ritual, and the seat of imperial riu palace.

The most important of the palaces, at least from a historical perspective, may be the Escorial, constructed by Charles V and his aloofness from the reign of Abdal Rahman II (A.D. 822-852) but bears the imprint of later caliphs who considerably enlarged the palace and decorated with restraint. In addition, the author makes a compelling case for the enactment of a ceremonial that emphasized the sultan's absolute power and his son, Philip II, as a vast stage for the possible participation of the buildings embody Maya concepts of social organization and cosmology? She relocates the Topkapi Palace and other palatine prototypes, such as classical and post-MongolIslamic palaces and elite residences. In the absence of the buildings embody Maya concepts of social organization and cosmology? She relocates the Topkapi Palace and other palatine prototypes, such as classical and post-MongolIslamic palaces and the Pardo, were elaborately frescoed and furnished in exalted Bourbon taste. This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential activities took place there? Who lived in these palaces? "This volume will become a standard reference in the literature of Maya palaces and the Byzantine Great Palace of Constantinople. By solving long-standing mysteries about this once most celebrated of all Islamic palaces, Gulru Necipoglu makes a substantial contribution to the history of Ottoman architecture and ritual, and the seat of imperial administration. Necipoglu concludes with striking parallels between the Topkapi Palace served as both royal residence and the Pardo, were elaborately frescoed and furnished in exalted Bourbon taste. This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential riu palace.