Read this article to learn about the art and architecture of Periclean Greece. “Greek art is reason made manifest. Greek painting is the logic of line, Greek sculpture is a worship of symmetry, Greek architecture is a marble geometry.” The Greeks had an extraordinary feeling for pro portion and order, for form and rhythm, for precision and clarity. To a [...]
Centuries before the Gupta period the chief architectural remains other than stupas and their surrounding gateways and railings are artificial caves, excavated for religious purposes. Early specimen show a slavish imitation of carpentry which proves conclusively that those buildings in stone were in infancy stage. Later Cave temples and monasteries are available in many parts of India but in the [...]
Golden Period of Architecture: Although all the Mughal rulers except Aurangzeb took great interest in architecture, yet Shah Jahan surpasses all in the field of architecture. There is no doubt that architecture reached the pinnacle of its glory during the period of Shah Jahan. The period of Shah Jahan (1627-1658) witnessed a glorious outburst of activity in the development of [...]