{"id":1998,"date":"2023-05-22T18:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/mimar-sinan-lo-schiavo-architetto-capo-dellimpero-ottomano\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T08:46:12","slug":"mimar-sinan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/mimar-sinan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimar Sinan: the slave chief architect of the Ottoman Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_76 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/mimar-sinan\/#the_origins_of_mimar_sinan_and_the_devsirme\" >The origins of Mimar Sinan and the dev\u015firme<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ilnuovomediterraneo.com\/en\/mimar-sinan\/#architetto_capo_dellimpero_ottomano\" >Architetto capo dell&#8217;Impero Ottomano<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Turkey is among those Mediterranean countries where there is a large concentration of buildings, varied and with different purposes, but united by a unique beauty of its kind. A numerically important part of these buildings were designed and built by <strong>Mimar Sinan, <\/strong>who, for over half a century, held the title of chief architect of the Ottoman Empire. But not everyone knows, however, that this character, of vital importance for Ottoman architecture, has origins linked to slavery.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"the_origins_of_mimar_sinan_and_the_devsirme\"><\/span>The origins of Mimar Sinan and the dev\u015firme<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The real origin of Mimar Sinan remains, even today,<strong> highly debated<\/strong>. He may have been Armenian, Greek or Albanian; the year of his birth is also uncertain, although it is thought that the future chief architect of the Ottoman Empire was born within the last twenty years of the 1400s, and more precisely between 1485 and 1491.<\/p>\n<p>What is certain is how the young man, living in one of the territories conquered by the Ottoman Empire, was subjected to the practice of dev\u015firme: the practice which saw the transfer of prisoners taken into slavery, after a conquest, to Istanbul, to become loyal servants or soldiers. For the boy the choice fell on military service: thus, from 1512 onwards, he was assigned to the Janissaries, becoming an officer in around 1534.<\/p>\n<p>Fu proprio la vita da soldato a permettere a Sinan di formarsi artisticamente: partecipando alle numerose campagne militari di Solimano il Magnifico, infatti, ebbe la possibilit\u00e0 di conoscere quelli che erano gli stili architettonici dell&#8217;epoca, presenti in gran parte dell&#8217;Europa e dell&#8217;Asia. Fu cos\u00ec che, di pari passo alla carriera militare, <strong>Sinan divenne architetto<\/strong>, disegnando grandi e piccole strutture, che presto avrebbero attratto l&#8217;attenzione dei regnanti.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"architetto_capo_dellimpero_ottomano\"><\/span>Architetto capo dell&#8217;Impero Ottomano<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>La prima a interessarsi al lavoro di Sinan fu <strong>Haseki Sultan H\u00fcrrem<\/strong>, favorita di Solimano e prima concubina a lasciare tale ruolo per divenire moglie legale del sultano, dando vita <a href=\"http:\/\/10.20.30.215\/ilwabxqstq_wp1_locale\/sultanato-delle-donne\/\">a una tradizione<\/a> perdurata negli anni a venire. La donna, affascinata dallo stile dell&#8217;architetto, gli commission\u00f2 una moschea imperiale, il Complesso Haseki Sultan: fu la prima di una lunga serie di lavori assegnati all&#8217;architetto dal sultano, dalla moglie e dalla sua famiglia, portandolo a divenire <em>Mimar<\/em>, architetto capo dell&#8217;Impero.<\/p>\n<p>Il lavoro di Mimar Sultan si protrarr\u00e0 per pi\u00f9 di mezzo secolo, al servizio non solo di Solimano il Magnifico, ma anche del figlio Selim II e del nipote Murad III, dando vita ad alcune delle pi\u00f9 belle costruzioni dell&#8217;epoca ottomana, rimaste imbattute in <strong>grandiosit\u00e0 e splendore<\/strong>. L&#8217;ex Giannizzero si spegner\u00e0 in tarda et\u00e0: rimanendo fedele al suo stile, progetter\u00e0 la sua <em>t\u00fcrbe<\/em> (o &#8220;mausoleo&#8221;), venendo seppellito nelle vicinanze dei suoi pi\u00f9 grandi benefattori, Solimano e H\u00fcrrem.<\/p>\n<p>Le sue opere, ancora oggi, nonostante i dovuti lavori di restauro, restano ancora tra le mete pi\u00f9 scelte dai turisti; gli hamm\u0101m costruiti dall&#8217;architetto, oggi rimessi in funzione, sono tra i pi\u00f9 belli presenti in Turchia. 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