VIENNA IMPRESSIONS OF EVL？YA ？ELEB？ AND HIS PERSPECTIVE TOWARD VISUAL ARTS

In this study, it was investigated what the visual arts called ‘Freng-pesend’ which were observed during Vienna journey of Evliya ？elebi means to an Ottoman traveler. Furthermore, it was examined to what extent Evliya ？elebi’s perspective toward visual art was accepted within his own culture. Evliya ？elebi provides some information with the depictions and stories about the visual art works of his age to his audience in some parts of his ‘Book of Travels’. Among all information, the European visual arts depicted as ‘Freng-pesend’ by Evliya ？elebi which were observed during Evliya ？elebi’s Vienna trip occurred with a mission under the head of Kara Mehmed Pasha during peace period called ‘dar-ül sulh’ by Evliya ？elebi were included. Evliya ？elebi defines the art works that he observed in Habsburg, which is an ‘infidel’ country to him, via comparison technique with the artists from his own society and their works. The common point of the texts is that they form within a belief framework. Evliya ？elebi not only depicts these visual art works and mechanical development via the concepts ‘acayip-ül garaib’ and ‘Freng-pesend’ but he also criticizes his own society having prejudices about the art. These texts are written in the contexts of ‘real’ and ‘fiction’ in the style of ‘Book of Travels’. The works that Evliya ？elebi depicts were analyzed in the volumes published by Yap？ Kredi Publications in modern Turkish