A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.102
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.102
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c18.102
The rival statement is the categorical assertion made by Father Sebastian Manrique, a Spanish Augustinian friar, Visitor of his order in the East, that the architect was a Venetian named Geronimo Veroneo, who drew a large salary from Shahjahān. Manrique’s words, as translated by Father Hosten, S.J., are:—