{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] The Late Period [continued (4)]}[21st April 1991]

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‘Mehmet’s successor Bayazid II (1484-1512[ce]) built two great endowed complexes, one outside Istanbul of a hexagonal hospital, medical school, mosque, and lodging house for dervishes – in all providing for 167 persons; the second foundation was of schools of music, theology and cosmography attached to a mosque at Amasya built 1481-6[ce].[’]

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* – ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Arts 3: 454]

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