Bio

Patricia Blessing is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Blessing is the author of Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240–1330 (Ashgate, 2014) and Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2022). With Elizabeth Dospel Williams and Eiren Shea, she co-authored Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300-1400 for the Cambridge Elements series Global Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Blessing’s work has been supported by the ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Cultures, the Barakat Trust, the British Academy, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the International Center of Medieval Art, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Society of Architectural Historians.

Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Art & Art History

Contact

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    pblessin@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: Art & Art History Position: Associate Professor
    • 355 ROTH WAY
    • McMurtry Building
    • STANFORD,  California  94305 

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2024-25 Courses

All Publications

  • Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon (Book Review) ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIES Book Review Authored by: Blessing, P. 2022; 10 (1)

    View details for Web of Science ID 000917689200002

  • Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-political History of Architecture (Book Review) JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS Book Review Authored by: Blessing, P. 2022; 81 (2): 238-239

    View details for Web of Science ID 000825539700005

  • Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire Blessing, P. Cambridge University Press. 2022
  • Fiber Fragments The Divided Histories of Textiles from the Islamic WorldPatricia DECONSTRUCTING THE MYTHS OF ISLAMIC ART Blessing, P., Ozturk, O., Gazi, Bowker, S. 2022: 77-90

    View details for DOI 10.4324/9781003170525-7

    View details for Web of Science ID 000943052400008

  • Islamic Architecture in Print: Reflections on Ten Years of IJIA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE Blessing, P., Ferguson, H. L., Kilinc, K. 2021; 10 (1): 11-15

    View details for DOI 10.1386/ijia_00025_1

    View details for Web of Science ID 000594467000002

  • THE BLUE-AND-WHITE TILES OF THE MURADIYE IN EDIRNE: ARCHITECTURAL DECORATION BETWEEN TABRIZ, DAMASCUS, AND CAIRO MUQARNAS: AN ANNUAL ON THE VISUAL CULTURES OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD, VOL 36 Blessing, P., Necipoglu, G. 2019; 36: 101-129

    View details for DOI 10.1163/22118993-00361P06

    View details for Web of Science ID 000661532700005

  • Presenting Islamic Art: Reflections on Old and New Museum Displays REVIEW OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES Blessing, P. 2018; 52 (1): 147-152

    View details for DOI 10.1017/rms.2018.12

    View details for Web of Science ID 000440137200012

  • The Vessel as Garden: The "Alhambra Vases" and Sensory Perception in Nasrid Architecture SENSORY REFLECTIONS: TRACES OF EXPERIENCE IN MEDIEVAL ARTIFACTS Blessing, P., Griffiths, F., Starkey, K. 2018; 1: 116-141

    View details for DOI 10.1515/9783110563443-006

    View details for Web of Science ID 000466965900006

  • Seljuk Past and Timurid Present: Tile Decoration of the Yeil Kulliye in Bursa GESTA-INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF MEDIEVAL ART Blessing, P. 2017; 56 (2): 225-250

    View details for DOI 10.1086/692804

    View details for Web of Science ID 000412901700007

  • Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240-1330 Epilogue REBUILDING ANATOLIA AFTER THE MONGOL CONQUEST: ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE IN THE LANDS OF RUM, 1240-1330 Blessing, P., Blessing, P. 2016: 205-208

    View details for Web of Science ID 000445187200006

  • Buildings of Commemoration in Medieval Anatolia: The Funerary Complexes of Sahib 'Ata Fakhr al-Din 'Ali and Mahperi Khatun AL-MASAQ-JOURNAL OF THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN Blessing, P. 2015; 27 (3): 225-252

    View details for DOI 10.1080/09503110.2015.1102494

    View details for Web of Science ID 000370491000003

  • From the Survey of Persian Art to the CIA Donald N. Wilber and Ilkhanid architecture in Iran HISTORIOGRAPHY OF PERSIAN ARCHITECTURE Blessing, P., Gharipour, M. 2015; 29: 112-146

    View details for Web of Science ID 000372155500005

  • Women Patrons in Medieval Anatolia And a Discussion of Mahbari Khatun's Mosque Complex in Kayseri BELLETEN Blessing, P. 2014; 78 (282): 475-+

    View details for Web of Science ID 000341547200004

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