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Prof. Dr. Zeren Tanındı graduated from the Department of Art History, Faculty of Letters in Istanbul University in 1965. She completed her doctorate in 1971. During 1967 and 1984 she worked as a specialist /curator on the art of Islamic-Turkish manuscripts: book binding, illumination art (Tezhip) and miniatures in the library of Topkapı Sarayı Museum. After she worked in the Bursa Museum between 1984 and 1986, she transferred to Uldağ University. In 2012, she retired from the position of the Chair at the Department of Art History in the Faculty of Letter at Uldağ University. Prof. Tanındı served in the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Bursa Cultural Department as well as the teachers′ college (as the Vice Dean and a member of Senator), Social Science Institution (as a member of board), and in the Faculty of Fine Art (as the Department Chair) at Uldağ University. Currently, she works at the Sabancı Museum.
Prof. Dr. Tanındı has attended and lectured at many international congresses and symposiums, while participating in research and international meetings on Turkish and Islamic Art throughout the world. She has published many works on Islamic Art, especially about Ottoman miniatures, illumination art, and book binding. She won the second prize for “The Foundation of Ottoman Court Style” (London 1993) from the Felice Feliciano (Verona) in 1995. Prof. Tanındı is a member of Historians of Islamic Art (HIA), Melcom International, the European Association of Middle East Librarians, Islamic Manuscript Association, and of Societas Iranologica Europaea.
Selected her important books and articles:
Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi. İslam Minyatürleri, Istanbul: Tercüman Publications 1979. (with Filiz Çağman), (Turkish and English)
Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi, Portreler, Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Publications 1984. (with Filiz Çağman)
Siyer-i Nebi. İslam Tasvir Sanatında Hz.Muhammed’in Hayatı, Istanbul: Hürriyet Foundation 1984.
“Türk Tezhip, Minyatür ve Cilt Sanatı”, Başlangıcından Bugüne Türk Sanatı, (Ankara:Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür yayınları 1993) , p.397-430.
Türk Minyatürleri, Ankara: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 1996.
“Kitap ve Cildi”, “Kitap ve Tezhibi”, Osmanlı Uygarlığı, Vol.2, (ed. Halil İnalcık and Günsel Renda), (Istanbul: Turkish Ministry of Culture 2003) p.840-891. (Turkish and English)
Osmanlı Resim Sanatı, Istanbul: Turkish Ministy of Culture and Tourism Publications 2006. (with Serpil Bağcı, Filiz Çağman, Günsel Renda)
Turkish Bookbinding in the 15th Century, London: Azimuth Editions 2006. (with Julian Raby) |
