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A text-book of the history of architecture (1904)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 182

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et square, centred in a court 313 feet square, forminga platform 18 feet high. The corners of this court aremarked by elegant minarets, and the whole is dominated by SASSANIAN AND MOHAMMEDAN ARCHITECTURE. 149 the exquisite white marble dome, 58 feet in diameter, 80feet high, internally rising over… … mmMJ^ FIG. 86.—T.A.J M.MIAL, AGRA. tic design. On the whole, in the architecture of the Mo-guls in Bijapur, Agra, and Delhi, Mohammedan architecturereaches its highest expression in the totality and balanceof its qualities of construction, composition, detail, orna-ment, and settings. The later…

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