OPTICAL IMPRESSIONS ON THE DOMES IN SELJUK ARCHITECTURE Cover Image

SELÇUKLU MİMARİSİNDEKİ KUBBELERDE OPTİK İZLENİMLER
OPTICAL IMPRESSIONS ON THE DOMES IN SELJUK ARCHITECTURE

Author(s): Yunus Berkli, Sevda Gül
Subject(s): Architecture, Visual Arts, Middle Ages, History of Art
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Great Seljuk Empire; Op art; Dynamism; Astronomy; Illusion; Architecture;

Summary/Abstract: Throughout history, different civilizations have existed in line with various attitudes and styles, with some sciences they have applied. These sciences showed themselves in parallel with faith and mystical stories. The cultural and artistic development of a civilization and society spans a wide spectrum. It is an accumulation of many different fields such as myths, beliefs, geographical structure, scientific development. One of the civilizations with such a wide cultural richness is the Great Seljuks and Anatolian Seljuks. The richness of the cultural heritage, the Seljuks, optical details in their architecture; As a result of the repetition of certain but different forms such as repetition, rhythm, shape, line, texture, color, continuity or minimal, they created various illusions and used the science of astrology to be perfect with this approach. The optics discovery in the Seljuks existed with the belief of embodying the existence of truth and the creative power world with an abstract understanding, especially in dome forms, and these abstract interpretations as a concept have a wide range. In line with a spiritual perception; the infinite was embroidered in the interior details of the dome in architecture and made the viewer feel the perception of depth in real size.

  • Issue Year: 14/2022
  • Issue No: 56
  • Page Range: 11-26
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Turkish
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