TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalvi, Mustansir
AU  -  Pitkar, Yashwant
TI  - The Romance of Red Stone: An Appreciation of Ornament on Islamic Architecture in India
SN  - 9788190080941
U1  - ARCH 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - .
PB  - Super Book House
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Decoration and ornaments
KW  - India
KW  - Mughal architecture
KW  - Pictoral works
N1  - The Romance of Red Stone is an appreciation of architecture of Islam in India. Indo-Islamic architecture is characterized by the prolific use of sandstone - red stone. It is the culmination of the long tradition of Islamic art that came into bloom right from the faith's first expansion beyond the Arabian Peninsula in the late seventh century. All the great Mughal emperors were prolific commissioners of monuments and their architecture thus remained the finest representation of this syncretion. Mughal architecture has been rich in ornament, almost at times overwhelming the architecture itself
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