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IG_225: Yechil Djami à Brousse. Planche LII.
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Title

‘Yechil Djami à Brousse’

Type of Object
Dimensions
39 x 51.8 cm
Artist / Producer
Şaşiyan, Bogos · Draughtsman
Launay, Marie de · Author
Sébah, Pascal · Printing
Dating
1873
Research Project
Author and Date of Entry
Franziska Niemand 2025

Iconography

Description

Ill. LII, figs 1, 2, in Marie de Launay, Die Ottomanische Baukunst / L’Architecture ottomane / Uṣūl-i Miʿmāriyye-i ʿUsmaniyye, Istanbul: Imprimerie et lithographie centrales (1873) shows two stucco and glass windows in black and white based on a drawing by Bogos Şaşiyan.

Fig. 1 on the left shows a pointed-arch window. It is divided into several sections. In the frame, empty sections alternate with elongated sections with the depiction of flowers in a bulbous vase with a long neck. The frames of these sections are decorated with black dots, which are supposed to depict small circular perforations in the stucco backed with glass. The window’s centre consists of a lower part with a circular section inside a rectangular form and an upper part consisting of the pointed arch. The lower part is filled by the outlines of a sun with sun rays. All its sections are plain, and no black colour is used to suggest small sections of coloured glass. In contrast to this, the upper part contains flowers in a wide vase and dots in the background depicted through black colouring within outlines, which partly suggest three-dimensionality.

Fig. 2 on the right shows a pointed-arch window with only one central section and a thin frame. This frame is filled with small black dots, which are supposed to depict small circular perforations in the stucco backed with glass, as in fig. 1. The central section is occupied by a single big vase with a slender foot, bulbous body, and quite short neck. It is the point of origin for different kinds of flowers. On top a big blossom springs out of a small cross. At the bottom of this section, to the left and to the right of the central vase, there is a flat bowl with flowers. Again, the depictions are constructed by black spots within outlines, which slightly suggest three-dimensionality.

Iconclass Code
25G41 · flowers
25G41(CARNATION) · flowers: carnation
25G41(ROSE) · flowers: rose
41A6711 · flowers in a vase
Iconclass Keywords

History

Research

This illustration is part of the chapter on the Yeşil Cami (Green Mosque) in Bursa, written by Marie de Launay. In this chapter, he describes the technique of stucco and glass windows in detail. (IG_226) Of great interest to Launay (1873, pp. 25–26) is their difference compared with Western stained-glass windows. Yet, he does not give any information on the typology of the windows in the Yeşil Cami (Green Mosque) nor in the Yeşil Türbe (Green Tomb) in Bursa.

Launay states that the restoration of the windows in the Yeşil Türbe (Green Tomb) was initiated by Ahmed Vefik Effendi after the 1855 earthquake. Amongst others, Léon Parvillée was commissioned with the restoration works in Bursa (Parvillée, 1874, p. 4). In his richly illustrated book Architecture et décoration turque au XVe siècle published in 1874 (IG_221), two illustrations of the windows in the Yeşil Türbe (Green Tomb) with palmette tendrils (IG_245, IG_250) show a typology very different from that of the windows in the Yeşil Cami (Green Mosque) depicted by Bogos Şaşiyan. Parvillée does not include illustrations of windows in the Yeşil Cami (Green Mosque).

As for the windows illustrated by Parvillée and Şaşiyan, there is no information given as to whether these drawings are based on historic windows that were preserved, or new windows that were made during the restoration works. The caption simply defines them as ‘Vitraux/Glasfenster’, without dating them.

Dating
1873
Related Locations
Place of Manufacture

Bibliography and Sources

Literature

Launay, M. de (1873). Die Ottomanische Baukunst / L’Architecture ottomane / Uṣūl-i Miʿmāriyye-i ʿUsmaniyye. Imprimerie et lithographie centrales.

Parvillée, L. (1874). Architecture et décoration turque au XVe siècle. A. Morel et Cie.

Roberts, M., & Williams, S. (2021). A Monumental Book. Ottoman Architecture at the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair. Art in Translation (Ottoman Architecture at the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair), *13*(1–3), 2–33.

Image Information

Name of Image
MISC_IG_Launay_1873_IG_225

Citation suggestion

Niemand, F. (2025). ‘Yechil Djami à Brousse’. In Vitrosearch. Retrieved July 1, 2025 from https://test.vitrosearch.ch/objects/2713069.

Record Information

Reference Number
IG_225