Taj Mahal
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Autor: A. Okada Wydawnictwo: Hirmer Verlag GmbH Data wydania: 1993 Kategoria: Inne ISBN: 978-3-7774-6030-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 293 zł | |
The construction of the world's most splendid mausoleum, the Taj Mahal, is surrounded by a haze of romanticized legends. Did the powerful seventeenth-century Mughal emperor Shah Jahan build this filigreed marvel of white marble, gems, and semiprecious stones purely out of grief over the loss of his wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died while giving birth to her fourteenth child, or was he 'vaunting his grandeur and munificence to the world'? While master photographer Nou celebrates the exquisite artistry of the structure's stone marquetry więcej... | ||
