Şehzade Mosque
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 29.7 × 25.6 cm (11 11/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Michael and Jane Wilson
Accession Number
2012.137.28
Art Historical Context
Step into the serene world of Ottoman architecture through this captivating 1857 salted paper print of the Şehzade Mosque captured by pioneering photographers James Robertson and Felice Beato. Located in Istanbul, the mosque—commissioned in 1543 by the great architect Mimar Sinan for Sultan Suleiman's beloved son Mehmet—stands as a masterpiece of classical Ottoman design, with its cascading domes and harmonious minarets symbolizing imperial grandeur and spiritual devotion. Robertson, a British photographer based in Constantinople (modern Istanbul) since the 1840s, teamed up with the adventuro...