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Taj Mahal Building in India

Taj Mahal Building in India

Taj Mahal Building in India

The low structure of Taj Mahal is large, multi-barrack room structure. The base is primarily a cube with the chamfered edges and is roughly 55 meters on each side (see the plan, right of stage). On the long sides, a massive pishtaq, or the jumped arched passage, Iwan reinforcements with a similar arched balcony. On each side of the principal vault, additional pishtaqs are piled up above and below. This reason for the piled up pishtaqs is as well folded up on making sectors the corner chamfered. The design is completely symmetrical on all the sides of the building. Four minarets, with each corner of the plinth, facing the chamfered corners, braces the tomb. The room of force places the false sarcophagi of Mumtaz Mahal and Jahan Shah; their real tombs are on a lower level.

The marble dome which surmounts the tomb is its more spectacular device. Its size is about identical size as bases building, approximately 35 meters, and is accentuated because it rests on cylindrical a drum of approximately 7 meters in height. Because of its form, the dome is often called an onion dome (also called a dome of the amrud or guava). The top is decorated with a design of lotus, which is used to accentuate its size as well. The shape of the dome is underlined by four smaller chattris arched (kiosks) placed at its corners. The domes of chattri fold up the onion shape of the principal dome. Their bases with columns open by the roof of the tomb and provide the light inside. The large decorative arrows (guldastas) extend from the edges of the low walls, and provide the visual emphase to the size of the dome. The reason for lotus is repeated on the chattris and of the guldastas. The dome and the chattris are supplemented by a gilded finial, which mixes the Persan and Hindu elements decorative traditional. The principal dome is crowned by a gilded arrow or a finial. The gold finial, made until the 1800s early, now is made of bronze. The finial provides a clear example of the integration of the Persan and Hindu elements decorative traditional. The finial is supplemented by the moon, a typical Islamic reason, whose horns move towards the sky. Because of its placement on the principal arrow, the horns of the moon and the point of finial combine to create the shape of three-pronged fork, r�miniscente traditional Hindu symbols of Shiva.

Decorations external of Taj Mahal are among finest finding in the architecture of Mughal. While the surface changes, large a pishtaq has more smaller sector than, and decorations are refined proportionally. The decorative elements were created by applying painting or the stucco, or by marquetries or cuttings out of stone. In conformity with Islamic prohibition against the use of the anthropomorphic forms, the decorative elements can be grouped in penmanship, the forms abstract or the vegetative reasons.

The interior room of Taj Mahal takes well a step beyond the traditional decorative elements. Here the work of marquetry is not lasted of will pietra, but concise invaluable and semi-precious gemmeous stones. The interior room is an octagone with the design taking account of the entry of each face, although only the door of the south of garden-coating is employed. The interior walls are approximately 25 meters in height and supplemented by dome false has interior decorated with a reason for the sun. Eight vaults of pishtaq define space in the level of the ground. As with outside, each pishtaq lower is crowned by a second pishtaq about central alley to the top of the wall. The four central higher vaults form balconies or the sectors of viewing and each balcony 'window external of S.A. a complex screen or the jali cut marble. In addition to the light of the screens of balcony, the light enters by openings of roof covered by chattris to the corners. Each wall of room was strongly decorated with the relief of bottom of dado, of concise marquetry complexes and the panels of refining of penmanship, reflecting in detail miniature the elements of design seen in all the outside of the complex. The octagonal marble screen or jali which frame the cenotaphs is made starting from eight marble panels. Each panel was cut out through with complex bore work. Remaining surfaces were inlaid with the semi-precious stones in detail extremely sensitive, forming the vines, the fruits and the flowers of rolling up.