Mahmud II
Nota de aplicación
Refers to the style of architecture that coincided with the reign of Mahmud II, who ruled from 1808 to 1839. Mahmud broke the power of the janissaries, whose reactionary views were in part responsible for the Ottoman military decline. In the arts, he was a major force in Europeanizing Ottoman art and architecture, building structures in the Baroque and Rococo styles, as well as the Neo-classicism of Napoleonic France. His Nusretiye or Divine Vict…