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[zupermaus]

Baroque was all the rage all over Europe, stemming from Italy but spreading across the world in regional styles, as far as China (it took over a century to reach UK for example but only 30 years to reach Malaysia). The Austro Hungarian Empire was heavily into it, as were the Ottomans. The latest fashions in the Nineteeth Century were just as mainstay and quickly taken up in Istanbul as it was in London, from Parisian haute couture to Second Empire style buildings. You have to remember too the Ottomans, although Muslim, were just as European as any European nation - not 'copying' European styles (as in colonies) but developing their own European styles at the same time as anywhere else in Europe. Its wrong to regard styles as 'regional' when in truth they were contemporarily international and hybridised into local slants. In fact much of European design is heavily influenced by the Ottoman Empire rather than the other way round. The heavy cloth, jacketing, fur lining and long dresses that Islamic Ottomans wore to cover up for religious chastity, alongside the curves, balustrades, balconies, arched windows of Islamic architecture or the turrets, weatherboarding and shutters of the Ottoman houses cross fertilising with the architectural movements and fashions of an often occupied Europe: Ottoman cross fertilisation through the ages

: Ottoman dresses that inspired Parisian style in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century:

The Sultana Cloak

Ottoman wedding gowns

Traditional Ottoman houses (domes and minarets were saved for Mosque design):

 

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Originally Posted by zupermaus

Baroque was all the rage all over Europe, stemming from Italy but spreading across the world in regional styles, as far as China (it took over a century to reach UK for example but only 30 years to reach Malaysia). The Austro Hungarian Empire was heavily into it and from there the Ottomans took it up. Thus there are styles such as Portuguese, Chinese, Mexican Baroque.

You have to remember too the Ottomans, although Muslim, were just as European as any European nation - not 'copying' European styles (as in colonies) but developing their own European styles at the same time as anywhere else in Europe. In fact much of European design is heavily influenced by the Ottoman Empire rather than the other way round:

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Ottoman dresses that inspired Parisian style in Nineteenth Century:

Very interesting. Thank you so much for explaining this! It makes perfect sense to me, considering the extent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.