This book aims to re-orient the narrative of Sinan's use of the fine art of Iznik ini (tiles) within the context of the Renaissance humanist paradigm. The study compares the fine art of Iznik ini of the Mosque of Rustem Pasha (1560-61) by the Ottoman imperial architect and artist Sinan, with the monumental buon' fresco of one of the giants of the Renaissance-Michelangelo's Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican (1541). The alternative...