Pietra dura Essays

SULTAN QABOOS GRAND MOSQUE General Information: The Sultan Qaboos grand mosque is located in Muscat, Oman, designed by Mohammed Saleh Makiya and Quad Design for His Majesty Sultan Qaboos to be the largest most beautiful mosque in Oman, and to stand out a unique piece of architecture. The mosques can be visited by non-Muslims except on Friday, and it is considered as a contemporary Islamic architecture. Construction: The conceptual design of the mosque started at 1992, while the construction took

The simplicity of the proportions of the Taj Mahal creates a completely harmonious effect. The building is exactly as widw as it is high and height of its dome is the same as the height of its arched facade. It has two identical monuments of red sandstone inlaid with marble on either side. The monuments of red sandstone inlaid with marble on either side. The monument on the left is a mosque, while the one on the right is its architectural replica, called a javab or ‘an answer’, whose purpose is simply

The Mughals who ruled India from 1526-1858, emerged as great patrons of architecture. Mughal architectural is a great historical source as it reflects on imperial ideology of the time. The Mughals drew upon various architectural traditions- indigenous Indian traditions, Indo Islamic architecture form the Sultanate period, Persian traditions, European traditions and introduced their own Timurid traditions of Central Asia. Right from Babur to Aurangzeb, architecture was used to assert power and seek

the glorious 16th-century French “grotesque” medallion (estimated between £80,000 and £120,000). He was also fascinated with recurring motifs, works that included elephants and palm trees, collages, inlaid items and surface patterns like mosaic, pietra dura, cosmati, marquetry and more. They inspired his banyan tree mural for the British Council, New