The Taj Mahal
by Edmund Nagele FRPS
Title
The Taj Mahal
Artist
Edmund Nagele FRPS
Medium
Digital Art - Photographic Print
Description
The Taj Mahal at Agra, India.
The Mausoleum of the Taj Mahal at Agra stands in a formally laid-out walled garden entered through a pavilion on the main axis. The tomb, raised on a terrace and first seen reflected in the central canal, is entirely sheathed in marble, but the mosque and counter-mosque on the transverse axis are built in red sandstone. The four minarets, set symmetrically about the tomb, are scaled down to heighten the effect of the dominant, slightly bulbous dome. The mosques, built only to balance the composition are set sufficiently far away to do no more than frame the mausoleum. In essence, the whole riverside platform is a mosque courtyard with a tomb at its centre. The great entrance gate with its domed central chamber, set at the end of the long watercourse, would in any other setting be monumental in its own right.
Contemporary Art © Edmund Nagele F.R.P.S.
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August 27th, 2020
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