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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 212

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that of Kalburgah, built between 1347 and 1435;and of Mandu, as well as the enormous mausoleums at Butwa, dis-play more and more important dimensions, while discarding theelaborate decorations derived from the native inhabitants. An im-portance rarely met with in the West is assigned to the kiblah,… … Fig. 92.—Mosque of Kalburgah. the entire court is replaced by a great number of small domes, as isthe case in the Mosque of Kalburgah {Fig. 92), the interior of whichis provided with a hundred supports and covered by seventy-sixcupolas. In architectural respects the greatest importance is to…

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