The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra First Edition by Ebba Koch ISBN 978-0500342091 0500342091
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ISBN 10: 0500342091
ISBN 13: 978-0500342091
Author: Ebba Koch
The greatest monument to love, and the lost world of the Agra gardens and their characterful owners, re-created through superb scholarship and evocative illustrations.
The Taj Mahal is the epitome of Mughal art and one of the most famous buildings in the world. Yet there have been few serious studies of it and no full analysis of its architecture and meaning.Ebba Koch is the only scholar who has been permitted to take measurements of the complex. She has been working on the palaces and gardens of Shah Jahan for thirty years and on the Taj Mahal itselfthe tomb of the emperor’s wife, Mumtaz Mahalfor a decade.
The tomb represents the house of the queen in Paradise, and the author shows how its setting was based on the palace gardens of the great nobles that lined both sides of the river at Agra. She leads the reader through the entire complex of the Taj Mahal, with an explanation of each building and an account of the mausoleum’s urban setting, its design and construction, its symbolic meaning, and its history up to the present day.
The book features hundreds of new photographs plus drawings by the Indian architect Richard Barraud that include plans and reconstructions of Agra and the Taj complex as they looked in Shah Jahan’s time.
Table of contents:
I. Mughal Agra: A Riverfront Garden City
II. The Construction of the Taj Mahal
III. More Than a Tomb: The Parts of the Taj Mahal
IV. The Paradisiacal House of the Queen
V. Everybody’s Taj Mahal
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