id10086515 pdfMachine by Broadgun Software - a great PDF writer! - a great PDF creator! - http://www.pdfmachine.com http://www.broadgun.com Egyptian Journal of Archaeological and Restoration Studies "EJARS" An International peer-reviewed journal published bi-annually Volume 4, Issue 2, December - 2014: pp: 87-104 www. ejars.sohag-univ.edu.eg Review article THE FLORAL AND GEOMETRICAL ELEMENTS ON THE OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURE IN RHODES ISLAND Abdel Wadood M.1 & Panayotidi, M.2 1 Lecturer, Islamic Archeology dept., Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum Univ., Fayoum, Egypt 2Professor, Archaeology and History of Art dept., Faculty of Philosophy, Athens Univ., Greece E-mail:
[email protected] Received 27/8/2014 Accepted 13/10/2014 Abstract The Ottomans had inherited the decorative elements preceding them, and did not contend with such extent, but had developed and created at each of the Floral, geometric and writing adornments. The key features distinguishing Ottoman architecture in Rhodes (1523-1912AD) are the ornamental richness and the attention paid to the decorative side had been increasingly growing. Through what had reached us of the Ottoman period constructions, it would be apparent to us the tendency to decoration and that such decorative material had largely varied. Such ornaments had been represented in a number of types: * Floral ornaments * Geometrical ornaments. Keywords: Ottoman architecture, Ornamental elements, Floral ornaments, Geometrical ornaments, Rhodes. 1. Introduction Floral ornaments is meant by tried to bind between religion and plant ornaments every ornament relies in vegetable ornaments, as the some had its drawing or inscription on vegetable mentioned that the Moslem tendency to elements whether natural or altered from vegetable ornaments is a result of the nature in an image remote from its Koranic directives urging on avoiding the original one [1].