Project description
Ottoman architecture in post-Ottoman territories for heritage management
Refurbished Ottoman buildings from 1685 to 1740 in former Venetian and Habsburg territories (Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, and Serbia) reveal layered architectural forms and complex meanings that challenge art-historical interpretation and heritage conservation. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the CONSTERRA project investigates the afterlife of Ottoman architecture in regions once governed by Habsburg and Venetian authorities. It examines how inherited Ottoman buildings were appropriated, adapted, and reused to consolidate political, religious, and cultural identities in newly acquired territories during a period of major transformation in Catholic Europe. Through a transnational comparative approach, the project explores how seemingly dissonant heritage contributed to the construction of local and regional narratives, generating new perspectives for heritage studies, management, and conservation policy.
Objective
CONSTERRA investigates appropriation, dissonant heritage, and the liminalities of identity by examining the afterlife of Ottoman architecture in former Venetian and Habsburg territories—modern-day Montenegro, Croatia, Hungary, and Serbia—between 1685 and 1740. In these regions, numerous refurbished Ottoman buildings display layered architectural forms and carry seemingly conflicting meanings. These complexities pose significant challenges for art-historical interpretation and heritage conservation, even as the structures are integrated into local cultural narratives.
Developed at the Department of Art History in Zagreb, with a secondment at the Institute of Art History in Vienna, CONSTERRA will comparatively study how Habsburg and Venetian authorities physically and ideologically incorporated formerly Ottoman lands by analysing the reception, adaptation, and reuse of inherited buildings. Situating these buildings within the broader landscape of post-Ottoman architectural production, the project argues that they played a crucial role in the political, religious, and cultural consolidation of newly acquired territories—contributing to the formation of local and regional identities at a key moment in defining Catholic Europe.
To address the near-total historiographical void on this subject, CONSTERRA poses several key questions: What encompassing transformations did Ottoman structures undergo? How were these buildings used to support the territorialisation of newly conquered regions? How were cohesive cultural narratives constructed from seemingly dissonant heritage? To explore these issues, the project employs a transnational comparative methodology at the intersection of art history, cultural geography, and critical heritage studies. Combining archival research, fieldwork, and digital tools, CONSTERRA aims to generate new knowledge on this chronological, geographical, and cultural crossroads, also informing debates around heritage management and conservation policy.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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