Mughal Inlay Art: Second revised, corrected and updated edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798651313235)

This is study of the INLAY art as it developed in Mughal Architecture, from Humayun to Shah Jehan (c. AD 1535-1658) indigenously, and independent of any extraneous inspiration or influence, landmark examples whereof have been cited with illustrations (64 b&w and 16 colour plates). It is wrong to brand it: pietra-dura or pietre-dure which misnomer was pasted upon it by nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial historians who suffered by a sense of inherent superiority of European culture and art, and who could not believe that the Indian people, whom Macaulay fondly called 'semi-savage' could develop such a fine and exquisite art as this, which even the classical Greeks and the Romans, who also worked in marbles, could not do

Author: Prof R. Nath
ISBN-10: 8651313233
ISBN-13: 9798651313235
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2020
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.23d