Illustrations of various styles of Indian architecture : a series of fifteen photographs of some of the most important buildings in India erected between B.C. 250 and A.D. 1830, with a lecture on the study of Indian architecture, read at a meeting of the Society of Arts, on 19th December, 1866 (1869)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 author · London : Printed for the use of schools of art in the United Kingdom · leaf 90
window tracery ; but I question if there is any¬ thing in Europe of that class so beautiful as the windows of the Bhudder at Ahmedabad. There is just that admixture of con¬ structive forms with those of conventionalised nature, which makes up the perfection of decoration in all styles ; and if… … Window of the Blnidder at Alnnedadad. Besides these, however, there are some hundreds of examples of the same class of decoration at Ahmedabad used merely as orna¬ ment, and, consequently, hardly constructive, but such as might be freely imitated in metal or in terra-cotta, and if used appro¬…
Architecture -- India · Hindu architecture · Temples -- India -- Pictorial works · Architecture · India
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