Emine Fetvaci
Department of Art History
Office phone:
efetvaci@stanford.edu

Emine Fetvaci received her BA in Art History and Economics from Williams College in 1996, and her Ph. D. in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2005. Her dissertation “Viziers to Eunuchs: Transitions in Ottoman Manuscript Patronage, 1566-1617” was a re-evaluation of the most prolific period in Ottoman manuscript production through a study of the networks of political and artistic patronage in court. She is interested in issues such as the codification of a historical record, the creation of collective memory, and the connections between artistic patronage and self-fashioning in early-modern courtly societies. Her research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal and Safavid art and architecture. Her current book project “Visualizing History in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Court” argues that the illustrated manuscripts of the Ottoman court were collaborative constructs involving shifting combinations of patrons, authors, painters and scribes. The book examines how these polysemic and highly complicated objects functioned as consolidated monuments that actively conveyed their multiple messages. In fall 2006, she will deliver a lecture titled, "Making a Royal History Book: The Case of the Shahnama of Selim II," as part of the AKPIA Lecture Series at Harvard.

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