 The winning sculpture by Murat Özver will be erected in Istanbul. |
Murat Özver, a student from Istanbul’s Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts has won the International Piri Reis Sculpture Contest.
The year-long contest, organized by Beşiktaş Municipality and Fındıklı Rotary Club, started in January 2010 in memory of Piri Reis, the Ottoman geographer and cartographer whose world map is the oldest known Turkish atlas portraying the New World and one of the oldest maps of the United States in the world.
Contestants attempted to portray Piri Reis’ great achievements in geography and mathematics to people of the 21st century.
Özver’s sculpture won the contest while İbrahim Çağdaş Erçelik was ranked second and Tolga Yurtözveri was ranked third.
Fındıklı Rotary Club Term President Canel Başer said the club had developed a serious project for the international leg of the contest, adding that they had announced the contest everywhere abroad and promoted it through social networking websites.
“As a result, many organizations and people who asked to join this contest learned about Piri Reis, the author of “Kitab-ı Bahriye,”” he said.
Özver's four-meter-high sculpture will be erected on the shore of the Bosphorus in the Istanbul district of Kuruçeşme.
Born between 1465 and 1470, Piri Reis is primarily known today for the maps and charts he constructed in “Kitab-ı Bahriye” (“Book of Navigation”), a book which contains detailed information on navigation as well as extremely accurate charts describing the important ports and cities on the Mediterranean coast.
He gained fame as a cartographer when a small part of his first world map (prepared in 1513) was discovered in 1929 at Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. The most striking characteristic of Reis’ first world map (1513) however, is the degree of accuracy with which he juxtaposed the continents (particularly the relation between Africa and South America) which was unparalleled for its time. Even maps drawn decades later did not contain such accurate positioning and proportions.
The year-long contest, organized by Beşiktaş Municipality and Fındıklı Rotary Club, started in January 2010 in memory of Piri Reis, the Ottoman geographer and cartographer whose world map is the oldest known Turkish atlas portraying the New World and one of the oldest maps of the United States in the world.
Contestants attempted to portray Piri Reis’ great achievements in geography and mathematics to people of the 21st century.
Özver’s sculpture won the contest while İbrahim Çağdaş Erçelik was ranked second and Tolga Yurtözveri was ranked third.
Fındıklı Rotary Club Term President Canel Başer said the club had developed a serious project for the international leg of the contest, adding that they had announced the contest everywhere abroad and promoted it through social networking websites.
“As a result, many organizations and people who asked to join this contest learned about Piri Reis, the author of “Kitab-ı Bahriye,”” he said.
Özver's four-meter-high sculpture will be erected on the shore of the Bosphorus in the Istanbul district of Kuruçeşme.
Born between 1465 and 1470, Piri Reis is primarily known today for the maps and charts he constructed in “Kitab-ı Bahriye” (“Book of Navigation”), a book which contains detailed information on navigation as well as extremely accurate charts describing the important ports and cities on the Mediterranean coast.
He gained fame as a cartographer when a small part of his first world map (prepared in 1513) was discovered in 1929 at Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. The most striking characteristic of Reis’ first world map (1513) however, is the degree of accuracy with which he juxtaposed the continents (particularly the relation between Africa and South America) which was unparalleled for its time. Even maps drawn decades later did not contain such accurate positioning and proportions.
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