BBC News - The Ottoman architect who linked East and West

Medieval Turkish Architecture and it's influence on the West.

If Suleiman the Magnificent, the 16th Century Ottoman emperor, had had his way, the road west would have led directly to Rome - the city that had been the hub of the empire that had created Istanbul, or Constantinople, in the first place.
This contemporary of Michelangelo and Andrea Palladio, two of the most influential Italian architects,
but his work was also to influence that of the most ambitious architects of the Italian Renaissance, as theirs was to affect his.
Michelangelo's dome, soaring above the roof of St Peter's, Rome, was surely influenced by those of Sinan's daring mosques in Istanbul.
- Oh ok, this makes sense, although I was not aware that Michelangelo completed St Peter's Dome. Must have been before Brunlleschi's accomplished Dome in Florence because i don't recall Brunelleschi heading to Rome to see St Peters although he did check out ancient Dome design of the Parthenon.
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on Aug 19, 10