Abstract:

In the 18th century structure of Ottoman period, The Ishak Pasha palace was constructed splendidly and admirably with its location and architecture that it still reveals the dominance of beylics having voice in that region and the socio-economic power of the era. Having a gorgeous structure at least as palaces at city center despite the fact that it is far from center at the eastern borderland, it comes into prominence with its stone ornaments as its architectural features. Owning unique stone portals that are totally different from each other, the Palace attracts attention with its sculptural stone rubbing belonging to unique design that reaches to the summit and detailed ornament, made elaborately. Plantal, geometric figures, epigraphs, muqarnases and figurative ornaments in the decoration of the Palace differ by ornaments seen in other structural decorations. Having an important place with its ornaments, in the palace there has also been seen the impacts of orders (gothic, baroque, rococo) which enter Turkish art with westernization effects beside the impact of Seljuk architecture. Beside these order features, regional differences, Persian, Georgian, Caucasian impacts, authentic ornaments made by local foremen and characteristic themes of Turkish Art were also used coherently which has an influence in structural decoration that made the Palace unique.

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