History of India . THE TAJ MAHAL 101 at Agra was Geronimo Verroneo, a Venetian, and thisaccounts for the difference between this dream in mar-ble and other Moghtd works. As the learned topog-rapher and historian, Mr. Keene, has well said, As abuilding and apart from its surroundings it cannot bepronounced to be an organic whole. No relation can bediscovered among any of the dimensions; the outline of. THE TAJ MAHAL AT AGEA. the dome does not express the inward form of the vaultit covers; the disengaged towers at the four cornershave no use or purpose, either apparent or real. Thefenestrations
History of India . THE TAJ MAHAL 101 at Agra was Geronimo Verroneo, a Venetian, and thisaccounts for the difference between this dream in mar-ble and other Moghtd works. As the learned topog-rapher and historian, Mr. Keene, has well said, As abuilding and apart from its surroundings it cannot bepronounced to be an organic whole. No relation can bediscovered among any of the dimensions; the outline of. THE TAJ MAHAL AT AGEA. the dome does not express the inward form of the vaultit covers; the disengaged towers at the four cornershave no use or purpose, either apparent or real. Thefenestrations give little shadow outside, no light , masked by the modern garden, and consecrated bythe repose of the whole scene—glittering, gleaming, dis-tinguished—there is something about the Taj, as we 102 SHAH JAHAN now see it, which is perhaps imequalled by any buildingin the world for that mysterious fascination which weexpress by the single short word charm, The Taj Mahal was finished in 1648, nearly eighteenyears after the death of the queen, who was interred,meanwhile, in a tomb in the garden. Tavernier saw it,while it was being built, and says that twenty thousandworkmen were continuously employed. Long beforethis the other buUdings which Shah Jahan carried outat Agra were complete. The palaces in the Fort wereerected between 1628 and 1637, the great Mosque in1644-50, and the Moti
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