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- Gülru Necipoğlu (born 3 April 1956 in Istanbul) is a Turkish American professor of Islamic Art/Architecture. She has been the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University since 1993, where she started teaching as Assistant Professor in 1987. She received her Harvard Ph.D. in the Department of History of Art and Architecture (1986), her BA in Art History at Wesleyan (Summa Cum Laude, 1979), her high school degree in Robert College, Istanbul (1975). She is married to the Ottoman historian and Harvard University professor Cemal Kafadar. Her sister is the historian Nevra Necipoğlu. Necipoğlu is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and Centro Internazionale di Studi di Archittettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza. She was an invited faculty scholar at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut (2013, 2014), and the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge (2013). Her prize-winning books are: The Arts of Ornamental Geometry (2017); The Age of Sinan (2005), The Topkapı Scroll (1996). Her books and numerous essays have appeared in English, Turkish, French, Spanish, Persian, and Arabic. Necipoğlu specializes in premodern Islamic arts/architecture, especially the Mediterranean and Eastern Islamic lands. Her publications address aesthetic cosmopolitanism, transregional connectivity between early modern empires (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal), artistic exchanges with Byzantium and Renaissance Europe, plans, and drawings in pre-modern architectural practice, aesthetics of abstraction, and geometric ornament. Her critical interests encompass methodological and historiographical issues in modern constructions of the field of Islamic art and Orientalism. (en)
- Gülru Necipoğlu (Istanbul, 1950) è una storica dell'arte turca. Dopo aver conseguito il dottorato con la supervisione dello storico Oleg Grabar, divenne docente di arte islamica all'Università di Harvard. (it)
dbp:almaMater
- Ph.D. Harvard University, Department of Fine Arts, 1986 M.A. Harvard University, Department of Fine Arts, 1982 B.A. Wesleyan University, Connecticut, Summa Cum Laude and Honors Art History concentration, 1979 (en)
dbp:field
- Islamic art and architecture, Ottoman architecture, aesthetic cosmopolitanism, transregional connectivity, geometric design, ornament, critical historiography and Orientalism (en)
dbp:prizes
- King Fahd Grand Prize for Excellence of Research in Islamic Architecture : PhD. diss. "Best Article by a Young Author" prize by the Society of Architectural Historians : "Plans and Models in 15th and 16th-Century" "Best Article Published in any Discipline" prize by the Turkish Studies Association : "Süleyman the Magnificent and the Representation of Power" "Best New Book on Architecture and Urban Planning" award of the Association of American Publishers : The Topkapı Scroll "Spiro Kostof Book Award for Architecture and Urbanism" from the Society of Architectural Historians : The Topkapı Scroll "Albert Hourani Book Award" of the Middle East Studies Association : The Topkapı Scroll Albert Hourani Book Award : The Age of Sinan Fuat Köprülü Book Prize : The Age of Sinan Necip Fazıl Book Award in the field of Best Original Research : Sinan Çağı “26th World Award for Book of the Year” of Iran’s Ministry of Culture : The Arts of Ornamental Geography (en)
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- Gülru Necipoğlu (Istanbul, 1950) è una storica dell'arte turca. Dopo aver conseguito il dottorato con la supervisione dello storico Oleg Grabar, divenne docente di arte islamica all'Università di Harvard. (it)
- Gülru Necipoğlu (born 3 April 1956 in Istanbul) is a Turkish American professor of Islamic Art/Architecture. She has been the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University since 1993, where she started teaching as Assistant Professor in 1987. She received her Harvard Ph.D. in the Department of History of Art and Architecture (1986), her BA in Art History at Wesleyan (Summa Cum Laude, 1979), her high school degree in Robert College, Istanbul (1975). She is married to the Ottoman historian and Harvard University professor Cemal Kafadar. Her sister is the historian Nevra Necipoğlu. (en)