Color and Pattern Map of Green Mosque Minaret
Read the composition of the colored glazed surfaces with stone workmanship in the icon structure of the early Ottoman architecture.
The minaret of the Green Mosque shows how the color in the Iznik is used not only on the container-to-wallet. Turkuaz creates a geometric rhythm of green and dark tones.
The surface makes it more understandable to examine detail in two stages as remote general composition, close material and repair traces.
Up rhythm from below
See how pattern density changes in pedestal, body and prophecy sections. The vertical rise is measured in color generations.
Stone-installed balance
Color surfaces do not cover the entire structure; light color stone workmanship provide a calm ground to the minaret.
Place of China on the route
After seeing Minaresini, Chinese Ovens and Süleyman Pasha combines the craft living with historical production in the same walk.
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