The Wooden Audience Halls of Shah Jahan: Sources and Reconstruction
Even before the great audience halls at Agra, Lahore, and Delhi, Shah Jahan (r. 1628–58) built wooden audience halls as a new type of palace architecture for his court receptions. Contemporary descriptions, paintings, and regional wooden mosques enable a reconstruction that also sheds light on the e...
| Published in: | Muqarnas |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Brill
2014
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| In: |
Muqarnas
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| Further subjects: | B
audience hall
ceremonial building types
Chihil Sutun
mosque and audience hall
palace architecture
Persepolis
quest for perfection
representation of architecture in texts and paintings
source and origin
talar
vernacular architecture
wooden architecture
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| Summary: | Even before the great audience halls at Agra, Lahore, and Delhi, Shah Jahan (r. 1628–58) built wooden audience halls as a new type of palace architecture for his court receptions. Contemporary descriptions, paintings, and regional wooden mosques enable a reconstruction that also sheds light on the exchange of forms and ideas between Mughal India and Iran. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-8993 |
| Contains: | In: Muqarnas
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22118993-0301P0014 |