Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople

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Robyn Dora Radway

Portraits of Empires

Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople

Robyn Dora Radway

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Indiana University Press
25 December 2023

Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Material culture; Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter

Series: Ottomanica: Voices, Sources, Perspectives

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.

By: Robyn Dora Radway
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9780253066923
ISBN 10: 0253066921
Series: Ottomanica: Voices, Sources, Perspectives
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 25 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Note on Translation and Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The German House in Constantinople 2. Making Albums in the German House 3. Ambassadors 4. Staff 5. Scholars 6. Noble Men Passing Through Afterword Appendix: Albums of the German House in Constantinople Bibliography Index

Robyn Dora Radway is Assistant Professor of History at Central European University. She has published in Early Modern Low Countries; Austrian History Yearbook; Journal of Early Modern History; and Archivum Ottomanicum.

Reviews for Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople

The wealth of precise and new historical information in this study is truly impressive. Radway manages to concretize these albums for us, providing invaluable archival and historical information that helps us fully understand them. --Emine Fetvaci, author of The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul