Many excellent studies of the fountains of Istanbul have been carried out in the past, and these provide valuable documentation and inventories of the city's fountains which are disappearing steadily one by oneo complement its predecessors by encompassing all the fountains built in the Ottoman Empire's last capital between the fifteenth and twenthieth centuries, presented in chronogical order, in the framework of a consistent typological analysis, and accompanied by photographs, drawings and other available visual documentation. The authors examine changes in style in Ottoman architecture over these five centuries in the context of fountains, so contributing not only to literature specifically on the subject of fountains, but also to the evolution of the Ottoman architectural identity, thereby filling an serious gap in literature on the subject.
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