Cennetin Kapilari - Gates of Paradise

Cennetin Kapilari - Gates of Paradise Kitap Aciklamasi
Anadoluda Selcuklu döneminden kalan en görkemli yapi kabul edilen ve UNESCO Dünya Mirasi Listesinde yer alan Divrigi Külliyesi, mimari konsepti, anitsal heykel nitelikli bezemesi ve benzeri olmayan yontulariyla, dünya sanat tarihinde Türkiye Ortacag sanatinin en önemli yapiti olarak kabul edilir.
Prof. Dogan Kubanin kaleme aldigi Cennetin Kapilari Gates of Paradise, her gün biraz daha yok olmaya yüz tutan Divrigi Külliyesinin korunmasi icin kamuoyu olusturmanin ve özel fotograflarla görsel olarak belgelenmesinin yani sira mimari ve heykeltirasi Hürremsahin dünyaya tanitilmasi amacini da tasiyor. Dogan Kuban, özellikle Cami Kible Tackapisi ve Sifahane Tackapisindaki yontu sanatinin essizligini vurguladigi bu kitapta, Hürremsahi ve yapiyi su ifadelerle anlatiyor
Iran kökenli Hürremsah, 11-12. yüzyil Selcuklu döneminin yeni olusumlar ortaminda yetismis, deneyimli, dahi bir sanatcidir. Islam tarihinde baska esi olmayan bu tac kapilarin mimari ve heykeltirasi, eski motif sözlügüne getirdigi yenilikler, mimari tasarim dehasi ve özellikle caminin kible kapisindaki cennet kapisi tasavvuruyla 12-13. yüzyil Islam Sufizminin sanat alanindaki bir temsilcisi olarak da kabul edilebilir. Anadolu-Türk Islam Ortacaginin Yunus Emre, Haci Bektas, Mevlana gibi büyük adlariyla birlikte anilmasi gereken en büyük Müslüman sanatcilardan biridir Hürremsah ...
Divrigi Ulucamisi ve Sifahanesinin tasoyma bezemesi, dönemin ölcütleri disina cikan ve bezeme niteliginden cok bagimsiz yontu karakterine yaklasan özellikleri, zengin sözlügü, cennet kapisi tasviri üzerine kurgulanmis programi ve tasarimiyla sasirtici bir yenilik ve yaraticilik sergilemektedir. Mimari ve bezeme arasindaki hiyerarsik iliskileri ortadan kaldiran essiz bir deneme olarak, Islam mimarlik tarihi baglaminda oldugu kadar dünya sanat tarihinde de karsilastirilabilecegi baska bir örnek olmadigi icin, mucizevi bir yapit olarak ortaya cikar.
Kitabin Ingilizce tanitim yazisi;
One of the most magnificent buildings surviving from the Anatolian Seljuk era, the Divrigi Complex Külliye has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. With its architectural concept, its monumental statuesque ornamentation and unique sculptures it is considered as the most important medieval Turkish work in world history of art.
In his book Cennetin Kapilari Gates of Paradise, Prof. Dogan Kuban aims both at documenting the Divrigi Complex with photographs and other visual material with a view to gather public opinion support for the protection of the complex, which is deteriorating day by day, and at making its architect and sculptor Hürremsah known to the world. In this book, in which he stresses the uniqueness of the sculptural work achieved especially at the Mosques southern kible and hospice portals, Dogan Kuban describes Hürremsah and his work as follows
Hürremsah was an experienced artist of Iranian origin who was a genius formed in the midst of the new developments brought about by the Seljuk era in the 11-12th century. Unequaled in the Islamic world, the architect and sculptor of these portals can be considered as an artistic representative of 12-13th century Islamic Sufism, be it in his genial architectural design, the innovations he has brought to the old motif repertoire, and especially in his conception of the gate of heaven in the mosques southern portal. Hürremsah is one of the greatest Muslim artists and he should be remembered together with the great personalities of medieval Turkish-Islamic Anatolia, such as Yunus Emre, Haci Bektas and Mevlana ...
With characteristics relating it more to independent sculpture than to ornamentation, with its rich vocabulary and its program and design based on the depiction of the gate of heaven, the Divrigi Ulucami and Sifahane stone carving ornamentation digresses from the criteria of its time, exhibiting striking aspects of innovation and creativity. As an incomparable experiment which abolishes the hierarchal relation between architecture and ornamentation, and because there are no other equivalent examples of its kind, this building stands as a miraculous work, both in the context of Islamic architecture and world history of art.
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