For this week’s Open House (and my last episode of 2020!!!), I’m taking you to two mosques in Istanbul commissioned by Mihrimah Sultan, daughter of Suleyman the Magnificent and his wife, Hurrem. It’s a brief introduction to the power of elite Ottoman women, the use of architecture to proclaim status, and the reinterpretation of gendered design to assert feminine power. (Is this inspired because I watched part of the Turkish period drama The Magnificent Century when it was on Netflix? Maybe??)
Learn more and bibliography accessible at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tlIelBqtYJbfl6_X-MExdtOPqPj-96bRq9U6rvsKhFU/edit?usp=sharing
