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A Hand Book To Agra and The Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and The Neighbourhood

by E. B. Havell
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788121234696
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 195
  • Original Price: INR 340.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 363 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

This little book is not intended for a history or archeological treatise, but to assist those who visit, or have visited, Agra, to an intelligent understanding of one of the greatest epochs of Indian Art. In the historical part of it, he has omitted unimportant names and dates, and only attempted to give such a sketch of the personality of the greatest of the Great Moguls, and of the times in which they lived, as is necessary for an appreciation of the wonderful monuments they left behind them. India is the only part of the British Empire where art is still a living reality, a portion of the people’s spiritual possessions. Many noted scholars and historians have attempted to revive the legend that the Taj was designed by an obscure Italian architect employed by Shah Jahan. The book is the product of extensive study of the one of the Seven Wonders of the World. With 14 beautiful plates and four plans delineate the things more interesting way to make the subject of the book an indispensable one.

Ernest Binfield Havell, who published under the name E.B. Havell, was an influential English arts administrator, art historian and author of numerous books about Indian art and architecture. He was a member of the Havell family of artists and art educators. He was the principal of the Government School of Art, Calcutta from 1896 to 1905, where, along with Abanindranath Tagore, he developed a style of art and art education based on Indian rather than Western models, which led to the foundation of the Bengal school of art. Havell worked with Abanindranath Tagore to redefine Indian art education. He established the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which sought to adapt British art education in India so as to reject the previous emphasis placed on European traditions in favour of revivals of native Indian styles of art, in particular the Mughal miniature tradition.

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