“Barbarous Magnificence in Glass Cases”: The Imperial Treasury and Ottoman Self-Display at the Topkapı Palace

IF 0.7 2区 艺术学 0 ARCHITECTURE
Muqarnas Pub Date : 2022-10-07 DOI:10.1163/22118993-00391p08
N. Özlü
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The Topkapı Palace and its treasures had long been a point of curiosity for Europeans, and when the doors of the Imperial Treasury finally opened for them in the mid-nineteenth century, the visitors—charged with Orientalist preconceptions—oscillate between admiration and disappointment. Capitalizing on the expertise they had gained in representing their artistic and cultural identity in world’s fairs, museums, and exhibitions, the Ottomans developed certain strategies for displaying their imperial heritage in the Topkapı Palace. During the reign of Abdülhamid II (r. 1876–1909), both the procedure for accessing the palace grounds and the tours became standardized, yet a sense of imperial privilege and exclusivity was deliberately maintained. During these choreographed tours, certain “self-Orientalizing” spectacles that mimicked the traditional palace ceremonies were performed for the foreign gaze. Yet the display of the treasury is more than simply a space curated for touristic purposes; the collection bears historic continuities and dynastic references that have been perpetuated as symbols of imperial legitimacy for centuries. Visual and textual sources of the period attest that the display strategies of the Imperial Treasury emphasized the authenticity of the collection and the venerableness of the dynasty by appropriating the Orientalist visual vocabulary.
“玻璃盒子里的野蛮壮丽”:托普卡普宫的帝国金库和奥斯曼帝国的自我展示
托普卡普宫及其宝藏长期以来一直是欧洲人的好奇点,当帝国金库的大门在19世纪中期终于向他们敞开时,游客们——带着东方主义的先入为主的观念——在钦佩和失望之间摇摆不定。奥斯曼人利用在世界博览会、博物馆和展览中代表其艺术和文化身份所获得的专业知识,制定了在托普卡普宫展示其帝国遗产的某些策略。在Abdülhamid II统治期间(1876–1909年在位),进入宫殿和参观的程序都变得标准化,但帝国的特权和排他性被刻意保持。在这些精心编排的巡回演出中,模仿传统宫廷仪式的某些“自我东方化”的场面被表演给了外国观众。然而,国库的展示不仅仅是一个为旅游目的而策划的空间;这些藏品具有历史的连续性和王朝的参考文献,这些文献作为帝国合法性的象征已经延续了几个世纪。这一时期的视觉和文本来源证明,国库的展示策略通过借用东方主义的视觉词汇来强调藏品的真实性和王朝的崇敬。
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Muqarnas
Muqarnas Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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