Abstract
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TOMB OF SULTAN MEHMED III AMONG TOMB ORNAMENTATIONS WITH CLASSICAL ERA GALLERY
Mehmed III died at quite a young age, and his tomb is located in the garden of the Hagia Sophia Museum. Built by his son Ahmed I, it draws attention in terms of architecture and cover coat as well, as the last of the tombs of the Classical Era dynasty. As the last representative of the gallery layout started by Mimar Sinan with the tomb of Suleyman I and continued with Selim II and Murad III, the structure reflects the classical era tomb architecture with its plan, but is distinguished from the tombs built in this period in terms of decoration with its baroque influenced ornaments. It is aimed in this article to introduce the tomb of Mehmed III in terms of its hand-drawn, tile, stone and wooden ornaments applied harmoniously from its dome to its outer space as well as to compare and evaluate it with regard to tomb structures of identical typology in terms of ornamentation program.
As the last representative of the gallery layout started by Mimar Sinan with the tomb of Suleyman I and continued with Selim II and Murad III, the structure reflects the classical era tomb architecture with its plan, but is distinguished from the tombs built in this period in terms of decoration with its baroque influenced ornaments.
It is aimed in this article to introduce the tomb of Mehmed III in terms of its hand-drawn, tile, stone and wooden ornaments applied harmoniously from its dome to its outer space as well as to compare and evaluate it with regard to tomb structures of identical typology in terms of ornamentation program.
Keywords
Tomb, Mehmed III, Ornamentation, Baroque
