A Jewel of Mughal India: The Mausoleum of I'timad Ud-Daulah (Ex Oriente Lux series)
by Amina Okada
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At Agra (India) rises the white marble mausoleum of I'timad ud-Daulah. It is unquestionably one of the gems of seventeenth-century Mughal art. Built in the midst of a large symmetrical quadripartite garden, the mausoleum projects toward the sky its four corner towers topped by small kiosks. The external walls are decorated with delicate incrustations of polychrome stones of different size and nature-onyx, jasper, topaz, agate or carnelian-featuring boughs, vine branches, flowers, cypress show more trees, vases and jugs, or reproducing endless geometrical patterns, herringbone motifs, or hexagonal stars. Even more spectacular is the mausoleum's internal ornamentation, which combines paintwork and stone inlays. Walls, ceilings and niches are decorated with mural paintings and with painted or carved stucco reliefs in a combination of vivid colours in which ochres, reds and greens predominate. Painted motifs reproduce trees of different species, vases filled with flowers and leaves, vine branches and bunches of grapes, but also bowls overflowing with fruit and trays filled with pomegranates. show lessTags
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