The Tulip Era Gardens at Ottoman Empire

Abstract

The era when the Ottoman have emphasized on the palaces and their gardens, is the “Tulip Era” that Western effect has been felt on Turkish gardens. This era that is a beginning point of declining from both administrative and political point of view, despite its relatively short longevity is considered as important from fine arts and landscaping aspects. By primarily Ahmed the third (Ahmed III) firstly, numerous sea-fronted palaces, palaces, manor houses, sea-side residences and their gardens and woods that have been constructed by the statesmen and rich people, where starting at Kagithane valley all the way to Golden Horn and Bosporus water-fronts as sparse manner have caused Istanbul to transform a "city of garden and water”. In Europe, while the Renaissance and Baroque style gardening fashion leaves their place to British naturalistic gardens, the Turkish Garden have been enchanted by the beauty and magnificence of Baroque style. At the Tulip Era Architecture the “formats” that are directly transformed from the West have not been dominant however; some novelties that occurred together with the Tulip Era only and that could be comprehended by means of a general design tendency have been realized.

Keywords

• tulip era
• ottoman gardens
• ottoman era
• lale devri
• osmanlı bahçeleri
• osmanlı dönemi