History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c31.s8.16

v2.c31.s8.16

A detached building called the Begam Kothî is a better specimen of the style than anything perhaps in the Qaisar Bâgh itself, but it cannot either be called a favourable specimen of Italian Art, or a successful adaptation of the style to Oriental purposes, though it has a certain amount of picturesqueness which to some extent redeems its other defects (Woodcut No. 439). Like all the other specimens of Oriental Italian Architecture, it offends painfully, though less than most others, from the misapplication of the details of the Classical Orders.