Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates, Partie 1,Volume 7

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Cambridge University Press, 10 juin 1999 - 297 pages
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The Muslim kingdoms of the Deccan plateau flourished from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries. During this period, the Deccan sultans built palaces, mosques and tombs, and patronised artists who produced paintings and decorative objects. Many of these buildings and works of art still survive as testimony to the sophisticated techniques of their craftsmen. This volume is the first to offer an overall survey of these architectural and artistic traditions and to place them within their historical context. The links which existed between the Deccan and the Middle East, for example, are discernible in Deccani architecture and paintings, and a remarkable collection of photographs, many of which have never been published before, testify to these influences. The book will be a source of inspiration to all those interested in the rich and diverse culture of India, as well as to those concerned with the artistic heritage of the Middle East.
 

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Table des matières

Forts and palaces
23
Mosques and tombs
63
Architectural decoration
115
Ahmadnagar and Bijapur
145
Golconda and other centres
191
Textiles metalwork and stone objects
226
Temples
246
Conclusion 2 68
268
Bibliography
282
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Page 4 - English prose style in deflecting it from the path of latinization into which it had entered during the second half of the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries.
Page 261 - Their fixed policy, pursued during the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth...
Page 164 - Maulana Farrukh Husain than whose painting nothing better can be imagined. The expert painters take pride in being his pupils and having adopted the outline of his plain sketch as their model, put their lives under obligation. From the sight of his black pen the green haired (beautiful) have learnt wiles. The freshness of his painting has put the portrait of the beautiful to shame, and has thrown it into the whirlpool of the jealousy of his painting. He draws the musk naval and people smell its fragrance;...
Page 164 - After finishing the decoration of the flower he busied himself in depicting the voice of the nightingale. That magical painter has put in motion the "breeze which throws aside the veil from the face of the beautiful.
Page 9 - India since 1915, it had to cover 1,802,629 square miles from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal and from the...
Page 19 - His rule lasted for 34 years (AD 608-42) and his dominions extended from the Narmada in the north to the Kaveri in the south.
Page xx - Deccan from the beginning of the fourteenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries.
Page 72 - The crenellated parapet with corner finials is repeated on the sixteen-sided drum on which the dome is raised; a pot-like finial crowns the dome.

À propos de l'auteur (1999)

George Michell is the author of "Architecture of the Islamic World, Brick Temples of Bengal," and "The Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India," Volume I. A native of Australia, he earned a Ph.D. in Indian archeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London.

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